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DIGEST  OF   THE  OA^TOnSTS 


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TABLE  OF  CONTENTS, 


THE  CONSTITUTION  1 


DIGEST  OF  CANONS '. 7 

TITLE  I. — Of  Candidateship  and  Ordinations 9 

TITLE  II. — General  Regulations  of  Minist 

I  ■  AND  THEIR  DUTIES 21 

TITLE  111.— < >!■•  Discipline 87 

TITLE  IV".-*-Of  the  Organized  Bodies  and  Office]  • 

•  the  Church 55 

TITLE  V.— Miscellaneous  Provisions 58 


TABLE  OF  COlSr TEISTTI 


DIGEST  OF  THE  C  AXONS. 

PAGE. 

TITLE  I. — 0*   Candidate sh  p   j  •.  ••   0 rdinatIOKS o 

Canon  I. — 0/  the  M  9 

'Persons  for  Deo 

Orders ? 

[ntention .' 9 

9 

Record 10 

'.    :  ifusal  to  admit 10 

5.  Application  by  a  "  (nomination 10 

§  6.  By  one  not  a  citizen 11 

'  to  Officiate  in.  a  For*  II 

Can?:;  III.—  '  Candida/  12 

■'  L.  !  ton  oi'  Candidates 12 

-  of  Devotion 12 

ra  



>  other  Dioceses 12 

sfer 13 

won  .for  

i  ion 13 

Ordination 13 

13 

13- 

11 

(nations  c,                               r  Deacons'  Orders  and 
Ordi  114 

l  i 

it 


Till  •  TADLi:    OF    CONTEXT  S, 

TITLE  I. — Of  Candidates^ip  and  Ordinations  {Continued.) 

CANON  V. — Examinations  and   Testimonials  for   Deacons*  orders 
and  Ordination  {continued.) 

PAGE. 

§  S.  Period  of  Candidateship,  and  Testimonial,-;  from  Standing 

Committee 14 

§  4.  Testimonials  to  Standing  Committee,  and  from  a  Presbyter. .  15 

§  5.  Substitute  Testimonials 15 

§  0.  Candidates  from  other  Denominations LS 

§  7.  Candidates  from  other  Countries 16 

Canon  VI. — Of  Deacons ig 

§  1.  Control  of  Deacons, 16 

§  2.  Conditions  of  Officiating 1G 

§  3.  Transfer 16 

Canon  YIT. —  Ordination  to  lite  Priesthood ..  16 

§  ] .  Deacon  proceeding  to  Priests'  Orders 16 

§  2.  Examinations. 17 

§  3.  Dispensations ....'. 17 

§  4.  Where  there  is  no  Bishop. . . :  t 18 

<^  5.  Testimonials 18 

vn  6.  Substitute  Testimonials ! It) 

o:  VIII. —  Of  the  Admission  of  Ministers  Ordained  by  BisJwps  not 

in  Communion  uMh  this  Ghurch 19 

CANON  IX. —  Of  Ministers  Ordained  in  Foreign  Countries  by  Bish- 

>  C  m  i»i  i   i     ,.  i  .'■  ,  this  I  uurcli li) 

TITLE  II. — General  Regulations   of  Ministers,  and  their 

Duties 21 

CANON  I. — The  Consent    .        ary  for  Offi.  \  23 

CANON  If. —  General  Regulations  

§  1.  Election. 21 

And  Institution 22 

,  §2.  Certificate  to  Minister  removing  I  mother.  22 

§  3.  Alms  at  Communion 22 

^  4.  Duty  of  Ministers  about  Confirmation,-',,  and  about  the  state  of 

the  Congregation , 22 

And  for  the  Diocesan  Council 22 

§  5.  Parish  Register,  and  List  of  Families 23 

§  6.  Officiating  of  Ministers  in  the  Cures  of  others 23 

Neglect  of  Ministers  to  Officiate ■ 23 


TITLE  J  [.- — <  Iknki:  ii  RegI'latioxs  of  MiNtsTETts,  &c.  (Continued.) 
'    \\'<>\   [l.—(k)wral  lley ulaltovst'tff  Mini sf.cn  {Continued.) 

TACK 

§  7.  < florica]   [ve^uloiidb - ' 23 

Letters  Dimissorr 2  I 

Reception 2 < 

[iettera  Dimislson  .  nhen  uol  required lit 

5  >.  A  Minister  w  Ik  ii  settled .  2.1 


\  SrO^    111.     Of  BishojK..  .  . 
§  I.  Election  of  Bisln 


§2.  Process  fur  Consecration       2.1 

Testimony    v>   i  Diocesan  Council * 25 

And  from  Si  a  m  liny  Committees 26 

Con  entof  Bishops 2fi 

Consecration  of  Bishop  elected  within  three  mouths  of  G 

oral  Council 26 

I'lace  "1   Consecration 26 

§  ■>■   '^" ■ 26 

5;  I.  Assistanl  Bishop 26 

S<>  Suffragans 27 

o    ■">.  Episcopal  Visitations 27 

And  Residence 27 

o    ii.  !'.  b  eni  for  ii  time 27 

o    7.  Forms  ofPuayer  and  Thanksgiving  for  qxtraordinarj  oQca^ons  27 

§    8.  Episcopal  Acts  iir  Vacant  i)ioceses '. 2fl 

§    9.  Domestic  Missionary  Bishops 28 

Mode  and  Ei  idence  of  Election 28 

Jurisdiction 28 

Vacancy 28 

Eligible  as  Diocesan 28 

May  appoint  Standing  <  'eramittee 29 

Report  to  General' Council 29 

o  10.  Foreigu  Missionary  Bishops 29 

Evidence  of  Election 29 

-Jurisdiction 29 

May  Ordain,  with  \vha1  Testimonials,  Dispensations,  and  lie-        • 

strictions :;u 

Jurisdiction  over  Resident  <  !lergj  men so 

Standing  Committee 30 

Report  to  ( Jeneral  Council 30 

§    11.  Diocese   without  a  Bishopplaced  under  charge  of  another 

Bishop 31 

N'i:  other  Bishop  to  Officiate  there  during  such  charge 31 

§    12.  Episcopal  Resignations ;;i 

House  of  Bishops  to  accept  or  refuse . ....  ','<l 


X  ■  TABLE   OF    CONTENTS. 

TITLE  II. — General Reaulatioxs  of  Ministers,  &c.  (Continued*) 

< '  A\'<  >N   1  [I. — Of  Bishops  (Continued.  I 

§  ::.    (Continued.)  page. 

If  during  recess  of  Genera)  <  louncil 31 

Resigned  Bishop  eligible  to  no  Diocese.    .• 32 

Bishops  without  Charge  subject  to  General  Council 32 

Resignation  of  Suspended  Bishop 32 

c'A  N< >\  IV.— Of  a  List  of  the  Ministers  of  this  I  'humh 33 

8  ].  Secretary  of  House  of  Deputies'  to  keep  :i  Register :::> 

vj  •_'.  Admission  of  Ministers  to  he  notified 33 

CANON   V.—  of  Hie  Mode  of  Securing  an  Accurate  View  of  an:  state 

*       of  tin'  Church :;:; 


§  !.  Statement  in  Parochial  Reports ;;:t 

riergymcn  not  settled  to  report  s<tv  ioe :; ! 

o  'L.  Bishop's  Address .".+ 

<\  3.  Duty  of  Diocesan  Secretaries :; ; 

Committee  on  the  State  of  'he  Church :;t 

Bast  oral  Better .'14 

§  I.  Condensed  Report  from  eaeh  .Diocese :!-( 

C.\  NON  VI. — Of  /he  mode  of  publishing  Authorized  Editions  of  the 

Standard  Bible  >>f  this  <  'Imrch ,. :;;> 

CANON  YH.-~Of  publishing   Editions  of   flu'   Bool:  of  Common 

Prayer : ,  :■„-, 

(ANON    VIIL—Of  Parochial  Instruction .  :;<; 


TITLE  1 1  J.— Of  Discipline :;7 

CANON   1. — Of  Amenability,  and  Oj/feqces for  luhicn  a  Minister  may 

he  Tried  and  Buriwhed 37 

§  1.  To  whom  Ministers  amenable ?j 

,  ^  2.  Punishable  Ofi'enoes. :;7 

§  '.').  Liability  of  Clergymen  presenting  for  Ordination :;7 

§  -f.  Proceeding  on  public  rumour ;;r 

CANON   II. —  Trial  of  Presbyters  bind   Deacons  under   Missionary 

Jurisdiction ;>s 

§  I.  Presentment ;>s 

§  2.  Trials 38 

§  .7.  The  Court ( 39 

v>  A.  Tin-  Sentence ;;:! 


TABLE    oi'    CONTENTS.  Xt 

TITLE   III.— ur  Discipline  (Continued.) 

\  IGTC. 

<\\\()\    MI.-  •■Of  a  Clergyman   in  one  Diocese  or  Missionary  Dis- 
trict chargeable  with  Misdemeanour  in  another :;u 

o  I.  Offence  oomputted  in  a  different  Diocese. :::> 

o  i.  Bishop  may  admonish,  &c :;:i 

§  :;.  Case  of  Clergymen  Ordained  in  Foreign  Countries 40 

<'.\\(>\    IV.    -Of  llenunciation  of  the  Ministry 10 

§  I.  Where  no  proceeding  i-  pending t m 

§  ■_'.  Suspension  of  action. M) 

§  :;.  Where  liability  to  Presentmenl t ) 

C*  I.  Notice  of  Deposition II 

(!  VNON   V.  —  Of  iif  Abandonment  of llm  Commnnionof this  Church 

/•</  a  Presbyter  <>r  Deacon 1 1 

§  I.  Abandonment  without  Renunciation 11 

Certificate 11 

Notice -1 1 

5j  2,  Deposition II. 

I'r0\  iso ',1 

t'AN'OX   VI      Of  a  Clergyman  absenting  himself   from  his  Diocese.  12 

<\\o\  \'M     -Of the 'Abandonment  of tlie  Communion  of  the  CJmrch 

by  a  Uisltop 42 


C.WOX   VIII.— Of  the  Trial  of  a  Kishop 


§  1.  Offences / 1:; 

§  '2.  Charges  in  writing. t:» 

Action  on  rumours 4:; 

I  iay  AAy&slU' 11 

§  :'..  Charges  to  whom  delivered.. .    11 

^  4.  Board  of  Inquiry .11 

How  constituted.  ....". 44 

Notice  to  Members .  {:, 

Place  of  Meeting * 43 

<  Jopy  of  Charges 4.1 

<  Organization 4:, 

Sittings  I'm  ate i;, 

Duty  of  the  Board 4,-, 

t  .*w  of  Evidence 4 4fl 

Presentment : 45 

To  whom  to  in-  scul ].". 


vi  I  TABLE    Hi'    CONTENTS. 

TITLE    ill.— Oj-  Discipline  {Continued). 

<\\\'i>X   VIII. — Of  the  Trial  of  a  ffisftop ^Continued.) 

§  ?  Med.)  iM.L. 

Refusal  to  Present. . . ., IG 

Bar  lo  future  Presentment IS 

Exception . Hi 

Limitation  of  Time Mi 

ijj  ~>.  Notices  on  Pres&atinenl    

To  Accused 

And  to  Church  Advocate 

Formation  of  Courl * 10 

Notice  to  Members  of  Courl 47 

Summons  to  Accused  and  to  Witnesses 17 

§  i;.  Course  of  proceeding 47 

President  and  nor!; > 17 

Call  to  plead W 

Non-Appearance  of  A  censed  .*. 

Common  Law  the  rule [S 

I  declaration  of  Witness ■!  > 

Deposition  of  Witnesses 4S 

Commissary Ki 

( Jross-ExaminaMnn  . 4i) 

Service  of  Notii  es.  Capers  and  Certificate 19 

Accused  may  have  ( 'ounsel ■!:> 

( ^odnse)  must  be  Communicants SO 

Opinion  of  ( !ourf 5G 

!  lecision SO 

A  ecu- cil  to  in-'  heard SO 

New  Trial 5(1 

Sentence ■""' 

Record '. . .  si] 

Exceptions .'ij 

How  kept  and  attested .">] 

Lay  Advisers 9 5.] 

vN  7.  Presentment  for,  Erroneous  Doctftne Si 

To  whom  addressed S2 

Court ! S2 

0  s.  <  'harges  against  Missionary  Bishop ■"■- 

And  Bi*bop  without  Jurisdiction •"»- 

Mode  of  Trying -  ■ .  52 

Ca  son,  IX. — Of  Sentences 53 

§  1 .  Suspension ■'<■'• 

vj  2.  Degradation S3 

1\ 0  restoration •. . .    •"' : • 

Notice , S3 


TITLE  [II.t-Of  Discipline  (Continued). 

I'AOE. 

Canon  X. — Of  Remission   or  i   nj  Jitdicial    Sent 

on  Bishops '. v. 

Canon  XI. —  Regulations  rcsjpt  Laity :,  i 

•N  !.  Removal  of  Communicants. :<  l 

->.  2.  Bishop  to  be  informed 5-1 


TITLE  IV. — Of  the  Oro    sized  Bowks  \~sd  Oj    rcEits  of  tiii 

I  '  I  t  I    I  !  t    !  1 


Canon  I. — -l )/  tl    •  ■       al  C         it 

->  !.  Special  Meetings 



i  U  puties. .    .  

:  2.  Registrar 

if  Do  ies 

.-  3.  Notice  to  t>iod  saa  f.-i    n<  i  •  

o  !.  Treasurer.. 

j  j.  Expenses  of  i ral  <  'ouheil. . 

•    ■    i  I .— Oj   •'  •'  ■  ■  •     it  teds, 

§  I.  Dtitie    a    '      •■  

I.  I  \  ilvid   to  ■  lb  iop 

i      .,  ■.   Mi  —Of  Congregations  and  Pa,  

S"ot  to  onito  •■■  ith  Chui'i  li  in   itn    '       i':    ■• 


[T]  E  V   --  ''•«!  -       .  Provisions >. 

C  vnon   1  — Of  i  I  Ct       is . .  ;,,s 

Repeal  of  fepe  I  i  ....         58 

Canos   -11 — Of.  the  Repeal     inn     'm     t  and  Enact m    it  of  Canons.  $% 

Form  .ii'  alterin    Ci  58 

'  h  in  ■■  !  to  be  i  ei  >'■!■■■>:  In    «vln  in   ' ">;» 


JONSTITUTIOK; 


CONSTITUTION 


Article  I.  This  Church,  retaining  the  name  '^Broies-    ••■■■ 
tant  Episcopal,"  shall  be  known  as  the  "  Protestant  Epis- 
copal Church  in  the  Confederate  States  of  America." 

Article  II.  There  shall  he  in  this  Church  a  General    '' 
Council.     There  may  be  also  Provincial  Councils  and  Di- 
ocesan Councils. 

Article  III.  The  General  Council  of  this  Cluuvh  shall  Qonerticouncu. 
meet  on  the  second  Wednesday  in  November,  in  the  year 
of  our  Lord  one  thousand  eight  hundred  and  i  ixty-two,  at 
Augusta,  Georgia,  and  on  the  same  day  in  every  third  year 
thereafter,  at  such  place  as  shall  be  determined  by  the 
Council. 

In  case  there  shall  be  an  epidemic  disease,  or  other  good 
cause  to  render  it  necessary  to  alter  the  place  appointed 
for  such  meeting,  the  Presiding  Bishop  may  designate 
another  convenient  place  for  the  holding  of  such  Council, 
and  special  meetings  may  be  (.ailed  at  other  times,  in  the 
manner  hereafter  to  be  determined. 

The  General  Council  shaft  consist  of  two  ileuses — tile 
House  of  Bishops  and  the  House  of  Deputies. 

The  House  of  Bishops  shall  be  composed  of  nil  the  Bish- 
ops of  this  Church  having  jurisdiction  within  the  Confed- 
erate States,  or  the  Territories  thereof. 

Each  Diocese  shall  be  entitle;!  to  an  equal  representation, 
clerical  and  lay.  in  the  House  of  Deputies.  Such  represen- 
tation shall  consist  of  not  more  than  three  Clergymen,  -and 
three  Laymen  communicants  in  this  Church,  resilient  in 
the  Diocese,  and  elected  by  the  Council  thereof. 

Before  they  shall  proceed  to  business,  a  majority  of  the 
Dioceses,  which  shall  have  adopted  this  Constitution,  shall 
be  represented  in  the  Council.  The  representations  from 
two  Dioceses  shall  be  sufficient  tb  adjourn. 

[n  all  business  pf  the  QounciJ  freedom  oS  debate  shall 
be  allowed. 


CONSTITUTION. 


constitution.        Each  House  shall  have  a  rig-lit  to  originate  acts  ■  and. 

"""^v^  when  any  act  shall  have  been  passed  in  either  House,  it  shall 
be  transmitted  to  the  other  House  for  its  consideration.  No 
act  shall  have  the  operation  of  law,  unless  concurred  in  and 
authenticated  by  both  Houses. 

When  any  proposed  act  shall  have  passed  the  House  of 
Deputies,  and  shall  be  negatived  by  the  House  of  Bishops, 
the  House  of  Bishops  shall,  when  requested  by  the  House 
of  Deputies,  signify  to  it  in  writing  the  reasons  for  non- 
concurrence,  within  three  days  after  such  request  shall  have 
been  made. 

In  all  questions,  when  required  by  the  clerical  or  lay  re- 
presentation from  any  Diocese,  each  order  shall  have  one 
vote,  and  the  majority  of  suffrages  by  Dioceses  shall  be 
conclusive  in  each  order :  Provided  such  majority  compre- 
hend a  majority  of  the  Dioceses  represented  in  that  order. 
The  concurrence  of  both  orders  shall  be  necessary  in  such 
case  to  constitute  a  vote  of  the  House. 

If  any  Diocese  should  omit  or  decline  to  elect  clerical 
Deputies  to  the  General  Council,  or  should  omit  or  decline 
to  elect  lay  Deputies,  or  if  any  of  those  of  either  order 
elected  should  fail  to  attend,  such  Diocese  shall,  neverthe- 
less, be  considered  as  duly  represented  by  such  Deputy  Or 
Deputies  as  may  attend,  whether  lay  or  clerical.  And  if, 
through  the  neglect  of  any  Diocese,  which  shall  have 
adopted  this  Constitution,  no  i  >eptaty  tkerefrom^  either  lay  I  >r 
clerical,  should  attend  the  Council,  the  Church  in  such  Dio- 
cese shall,  nevertheless, be  bound  hy  the  %( -tsof  such  Council. 

province.  Article    IV.    Whenever  any  one   of    the    Confederate 

States  shall  contain  more  than  one  Diocese,  said  State  may, 
with  the  consent  of  all  the  Dioceses  in  said  State.  conslV 
tute   an   Ecclesiastical   Province,    in    which    a    Provincial 

Pi-ovmciaicoun.  Council  may  be  held  at  least  once  in  every  three  years, 
which  Provincial  Council  shall  he  made  pp  Of  all  the 
Bishops  having  jurisdiction  within  the  Provim-e,  and  of 
such  representatives,  clerical  and  lay.  from  the  Dioceses 
within  the  Province,  as  may  be  determined  upon  by  the 
Diocesan  Councils  thereof.  If  there  be  more  than  one 
Bishop  within  the  Province,  the  senior  Bishop  by  eonsecra- 
tion   shall   preside  in    the  Provincial   Council.  hen 

there  shall  be  three,  or  more  thim  three  Bishops,  :]•(■;.-  shall 
form  a  separate  House. 

Whenever  such  Council  shal  .  te,  its  acts  si: all  be  of 

force  within  all  the  Dioceses  en  within  the  Province. 


Piocesan  Coun- 


,     COXsTITUTIOX. 

AaniCLB  V.  There  shall  be  held  annually,  in  each  Dio- 
cese, a  Diocesan  Council,  to  be  composed  of  the  Bishop  or 
Bishops  of  the  Diocese,  and  of  a  lay  and  clerical  represen-  <*£.' 
tation  from  each  Parish  of  the  Diocese.     This  Council  shall 
legislate  for  only  J  >iocesan  purposes 

Article  VI.  The  Bishop  or  Bishops  in  each  Diocese  bu 
shall  be  chosen  by  the  Council  of  that  Diocese,  agreeably 
to  such  rules  as  it  may  prescribe  ;  and  every  Bishop  of  this 
Church  shall  confine  the  exercise  of  his  Episcopal  Office  to 
his  proper  Diocese,  unless  requested  to  perform  any  act  of  that 
Office  by  the  Ecclesiastical  Authority  of  another  Diocese. 

Article  VII.  A  new  Diocese,  formed  in  any  of  the  .\ew  Dioceses. 
Confederate  States,  or  in  any  Territory  thereof,  not  now 
represented,  may,  at  any  time  hereafter,  be  admitted  to 
union  with,  and  representation  in,  the  Cenera!  Council  of 
this  Church,  on  ac}C§diag  to  this  Constitution:  Provide' 
there  were,  at  the  time  of  organizing,  and  are,  at  the  time 
of  making  application  1'-  ,  at  least  six  otli 

sbyters  within    si  '  :!arly    settled   in   ;i 

Parish  or  Church. 

A  new  Dior-  formed  with  in   the!:  any 

existing  Diocese,  with  the  consent  of  its  Council  and  the 
Bishop  or  Bishops  thereof,  or,  if  there  be  no  Bishop,  of  the 
Ecclesiastical  Authority  thereof;  and  a  new  Di<  ay 

be  formed  with;  of  two  or  more  Dioceses,  wit:: 

the  like  consent.  But  no  such  new  Diocese  shall  be 
formed,  which  s  -  thfcn  ten  self-supporting 

Parishes,  or  less  than  ten  Presbyters  who  have  been  for  at 
feast   one   year   canonical-  y   resident  within  the  bounds  of 
such  new  Diocese,  regularly  settled  in  :>   Parish  or  Congre- 
ion,  and  qualified  to  vote  for  a  Bishop;  nor  shall  such 
v  Diocese  be  formedif  thereby  an  ■  ie  shall 

be  so  reduced  as  to  contain  i  d  fifteen  self-supportiu  g 

Parishes,  or  less  than  fifteen  Presbyters  who  have  been  re- 
siding therein,    and  settled    and  qualified  as  above-men- 
tioned: Provided,  that  hall  form  i, 
Dio< 

In  case  a  Diocese  shall  be  divided  into  two  or  more  Dio- 
s,  the  Diocesan  of  the  Diocese  so  divided  may  elect  the 
Diocese  over  which,  he  avIU  preside,  and  shall  become  the 
Diocesan  there  isistant  Bishop,  if  there  be 

one,  may  elect  the  Diocese  to  which  he  wi!l  be  attached  ; 
and,  if  it  be  not  the  one  elected  '  hall  be 

thy  Piocesan 


CONSTITUTION. 


Prayor-Booli 


Bishops  for 
Igo  Countries 


Article.  VIII.  The  mode  of  trying  Bishops  shall  be 
provided  by  the  General  Couneil.  The  court  appointed 
for  that  purpose  shall  be  composed  of  Bishops  only. 

In  every  Diocese,  the  mode  of  trying  Presbyters  and 
Deacons  shall  be  prescribed  by  the  Council  of  the  Diocese. 

Xone  but  a  Bishop  shall  pronounce  sentence  of  admoni- 
tion, suspension  or  degradation  from  the  ministry,  on  any 
Clergyman,  whether  Bishop,  Presbyter  or  Deacon. 

Article.  IX.  Xo  person  shall  be  admitted  to  Holy  Or- 
ders, until  he  shall  have  been  examined  by  the  Bishop  and 
by  two  Presbyters,  and  shall  have  exhibited  such  testimo- 
nials and  other  requisites  as  the  Canons  in  that  case  pro- 
vided may  direct. 

Xor  shall  any  person  be  ordained  either  Deacon  or  Pri 
until  he  shall  have  subscribed  the  following  declaration,  viz  : 

"I  do  believe  the  Holy  .Scriptures  of  the  Old  and  New  Testamenl 
theWordof  (iod,  and  to  contain  all  Sitings  necessary  tosalration  ;  and  '.  do 
solemnly  engage  to  conform  to  the  Doctrines  and  Worship  of  the    Pr6- 
testant  Episcopal  Church  in  the  Confederate  states  of  America.1' 

Xo  person  ordained  by  a  foreign  Bishop  shall  be  per- 
mitted to  officiate  as  a  Minister  of  this  Church,  until  he 
shall  have  complied  with  the  Canon  or  Canons  in  such 
case  provided,  and  have  also  subscribed  the  aforesaid 
declaration. 

Article  X.  A  Book  of.Cmnmon  Prayer;  Administra- 
tion of  the  Sacraments  and  other  Rites  and  Ceremonies  of 
the  Church,  Articles  of  Religion,  and  a  form  and  manner 
of  making,  ordaining  and  consecrating  Bishops,  Priests 
and  Deacons,  when  established  by  the  Genera i  Council, 
shall  be  used*iil  those  Dioceses  which  shall  have  adopted  this 
Constitution.  Xo  alteration  or  addition  shall  be  made  in 
the  Book  of  Common  Prayer,  or  other  offices  of  the 
Church,  or  the  Articles  of  Religion,  Unless  the  same  shall 
be  proposed  in  one  General  Council,  and-  by  a  resolution 
thereof  made  known  to  the  Council  of  every  Diocese,  ap- 
proved by  .a  majority  of  the  Diocesan  Councils,  and  adopted 
at  the  subsequent  General  Council. 

Articlk  XX  Bishops  for  foreign  countries  may.  on  due 
application  therefrom,  be  consecrated,  with  the  appro- 
bation of  a  majority  of  the  Bishops  of  this  Church,  signi- 
fied in  writing  to  the  Presiding  Bishop  ;  he  thereupon 
taking  order  for  the  same,  and  they  being  satisfied  that  the 
person  designated  for  the  office  ha-    been  duly  i   and 

is  properly  qualified. 


CONSTITUTION. 


The  order  for  such  Consecration  shall  be  conformed,  as 
nearly  as  may  be,  in  the  judgment  of  the  Bishops,  to  the 
one  used  in  this  Church. 

Bishops,  so  consecrated,  shall  not  be  eligible  to  the  omVo 
of  Diocesan,  or  Assistant  Bishop,  in  any  Diocese  in  the 
Confederate  States,  nor  be  entitled  to  a  scat  in  the  House 
of  Bishops,  nor  exercise  any  authority  in  the  said  States. 

Article  XI [.  Any  alteration  in  this  Constitution  shall 
bo  originated  in  the  General  Council.  When  adopted  in 
one -General  Council  by  a  majority  of  the  House  ot  Bishops, 
and  by  a  majority  of  the  House  of  Deputies,  said  Deputies 
voting  by  Dioceses  and  orders,  such  alteration  shall  be  made 
known  to  the  several  Diocesan  Councils,  and,  if  agreed  to 
by  two-thirds  of  them,  and  ratified  in  the  ensuing  General 
Council,  the  same  shall  be  a  part  of  this  Constitution. 


Alteration* 


DIGEST  OF  THE  CANONS. 


TITLE   I. 

OF   CANI)H)ATFSHIP   AND   ORDINATIONS. 

•  *  • 

CANON  I. 

OF  THK   f-XCl.KSIAMK'AL  A  ITiK  >i:iTY. 

The  Ecclesiastical  Authority  of  each  Diocese  is  its  Bishop.     >; 
When  there  is  no  Bishop,  the  Standing  Committee  shall.be 
the  Ecclesiastical    Authority  for  all  purposes   declared   in 
these  Canons. 


CAXOX   II. 

OF    THE    A.DMI3SIQ.N    OF    PERSONS    As    (\\yi >]  |  >.\  HE ;    FOli 
DEACOHTS1  ORDERS, 

§  i.  Every  person,  who  desires  to  become  a  candidate  for    - 

Holy  Orders  in  this  Church,  shall,  in  the  first  instance,  give 
notice  in  writing  of  that  desire  to  the  Ecclesiastical  Author- 
ity to  whose  jurisdiction  he  belongs ;  in  which  notice  he 
snail  declare  whether  he  has  ever  applied  for  admission  as 
a  candidate  in  any  other  Diocese.  The  Ecclesiastical  Au- 
thority may  consent  to  his  applying  in  some  other  Diocese. 
§  2.  The  notice  above  required  having  been  given  to  the 
Bishop,  if  there  be  one,  and  the  Bishop  having  signified 
his  approbation  in  writing,  the  person  so  applying  shall  send 
the  -aid  certificate  in  a  letter  addressed  by  him  to  the  Pres- 
ident or  Secretary  of  "the  Standing  Committee  of  the  Dio- 
cese of  the  said  Bishop  ;  whereupon  the  Standing  Commit- 
tee may,  if  they  see  lit,  testify  in  his  behalf  to  the  Bishop, 
that,  from  personal  knowledge,  or  from  testimonials  laid 
before  them,  they  believe  that  he  is  pious,  sober  and  hon- 
est, attached  to  the  doctrine,  discipline  and  worship  of  the 


tio 


10  TITLE  1.  -OF  CANDIDATESHIP  AND  ORDINATIONS. 

canon  u.  Protestant  Episcopal  Church,  a  commimicant  of  the  same, 
w^ — !/  and  in  their  opinion  possesses  such  qualifications  as  will 
render  him  apt  and  meet  to  exercise  the  ministry  to  the 
glory  of  God,  and  the  edifying  of  the  Church:  and  if  the 
Standing  Committee  cannot  certify  as  above  from  personal 
knowledge,  the  testimonials  laid  before  them  by  the  appli- 
cant shall  be  of  the  same  purport,  and  as  full,  as  the  certifi- 
cate above  required,  and  shall  be  signed  by  at  least  one 
Presbyter  and  four  respectable  laymen  of  the  Protestant 
Episcopal  Church  in  the  Confederate  States. 

KewuL*10"  am!  §  3.  The  applicant  shall  transmit  the  certificate  of  the 
Standing  Committee  to  the  Bishop,  who  may  thereupon 
admit  the  person  as  a  candidate  for  Holy  Orders,  and  shall 
record  the  same  in  a  book  to  be  kept  by  him  for  mat  pur- 
.pose,  and  shall  notify  the  candidate  of  such  record.  In  any 
Diocese  where  there  is  no  Bishop,  the  Standing  Committee 
may,  on  the  same  conditions,  admit  the  person  as  a  candi- 
date, and  shall  make  record  and  notification  in  the  same 
manner. 

Refusal  to  a,i-  §  4  ]sj0  person  AV]l0  iias  previously  applied  for  admission 
as  a  candidate  in  any  Diocese,  and  has*  been  refused,  or, 
h'aving  been  admitted,  has  afterwards  ceased  to  be  a  candi- 
date, shall  be  admitted  as  a  candidate  in  any  other  Diocese, 
until  he  shall  have  produced  from  the  Ecclesiastical  Author- 
ity of  the  former  Diocese  a  certificate  declaring  the  cause 
for  which  he  was  refused  admission,  or  for  which  he  ceased 
to  be  a  candidate. 

a  wtt?&na$  §  5.  [1.]  When  a  person,  who,  not  having  had  Episcopal 
Ordination,  has  been  acknowledged  as  an  ordained  minister 
or  licentiate  in  any  denomination  of  Christians,  shall  desire 
to  be  ordained  in  this  Church,  he  shall  give  notice  thereof 
to  the  Ecclesiastical  Authority  of  the  Diocese  in  which  he 
resides;  or,  if  he  reside  in  a  State  or  Territory  in  which 
there  is  no  organized  Diocese,  to  the  Missionary  Bishop 
within  whose  jurisdiction  he  resides;  which  notice  shall  be 
accompanied  by  a  written  certificate  from  at  least  two  Pres- 
byters of  this  Church,  stating  that,  from  personal  knowl- 
edge of  the  applicant,  or  satisfactory  evidence  laid  before 
them,  they  believe  that  his  desire  to  leave  the  denomination 
to  which  he  belonged  has  not  arisen  from  any  circumstance 
unfavorable  to  his  moral  or  religious  character,  or  on  account 
of  which  it  may  be  inexpedient  to  admit  him  to  the  exercise 
of  the  ministry  in  this  Church ;  and  they  may  also  add  what 
they  know  or  believe,  on  good  authority,  of  the  circumstan- 
ces leading:  to  the  said  desire. 


denomination. 


TITLE  I.— OK  CANDIDATE- nil'  AND  ORDINATIONS.  11 

[2.]  «If  the  Ecclesiastical  Authority  shall  think  proper  to     cannon  u. 
proceed,  the  person  applying  to  be  received  as  a  candidate     v— v — ' 
shall  produce  to  the  Standing  Committee  a  testimonial  from  tw^pe^nsam! 
at  least  twelve  members  of  the  denomination  from  which  he two  Presbyters- 
comes,  or   twelve  members  of    the   Protestant  Episcopal 
Church,  or  twelve  persons  in  part  of  the  denomination  from 
which   he   comes  and  in  part  Episcopalians,  satisfactory  to 
the  Committee,  that  the  applicant  has,  for  three  years  last 
past,   lived  piously,  soberly  and  honestly ;  and  also  a  testi- 
monial from  at  least  two  Presbyters  of  this  Church,  that 
they  believe  him  to  be  pious,  sober  and  honest,  and  sincerely 
attached   to  the    doctrine,  discipline  and  worship  of  the 
Church.      The    Standing    Committee,  being  satisfied    on 
these  points,  may  recommend  him  to  the    Bishop,   to  be 
received  as   a  candidate  for  Orders  in  this    Church;    or, 
if  there  be    no  P>ishop,   the  Standing  Committee  ma}7  so 
receive  him. 

§  6.  [1.]  When  a  person,  not  a  citizen  of  the  Confeder-  such roucatton 
ate  States,  who  has  been  acknowledged  as  an  ordained  *>•» 
minister  in  any  denomination  of  Christians,  shall  apply  to 
become  a  candidate  for  Orders  in  this  Church,  the  Bishop 
to  whom  application  is  made  shall  require  of  him  (in  addi- 
tion to  the  above  qualifications)  satisfactory  evidence  that 
lie  has  resided  at  least  one  year  in  the  Confederate  States, 
previous  to  his  application. 

[2.]  \Yhcn  a  person,  not  a  citizen  of  the  Confederate 
States,  who  has  been  acknowledged  as'an  ordained  minister 
in  any  denomination  of  Christians,  shall  apply  for  Orders 
in  this  Church  on  the  ground  of  a  call  to  a  Church  in  which  And  to  officiate 
divine  service  is  celebrated  in  a  foreign  language,  the  Stand- L" 
ing  Committee  of  the  Diocese  to  which  such  Church  belongs, 
may,  on  sufficient  evidence  of  fitness  according  to  the  Can- 
ons, and  by  a  unanimous  vote  at  a  meeting  did}'  convened, 
recommend  him  to  the  Bishop  for  Orders,  and  the  Bishop 
may  then  ordain  him,  and  he  may  be  settled,  and  instituted 
into  the  said  Church,  without  his  producing  a  testimonial  to 
his  character  by  a  clergyman  from  his  personal  knowledge 
of  him  for  oue  year,  and  without  his  having  been  a  year 
resident  in  this  country,  anything  in  any  other  Canon  of 
this  Church  to  the  contrary  notwithstanding:-  Provided,  That, 
in  both  of  the  above  cases,  the  person  applying  produce  a 
certificate,  signed  by  at  least  four  respectable  members  of 
this  Church,  that  they  have  satisfactory  reasons  to  believe 
the  testimonials  to  his  religious,  moral  and  literary  qualifi- 
cations to  be  entitled  to  full  credit. 


12 


TITIE  !.     OF   CANDIDATES!!!!'  AND  ORDINATION* 


CAKON    II J. 


Supervision 

Candidate:--. 


Habit  o:    d 
tion. 


0F  AI>-MlTT!-:i>  CANDIDATES  FOR  DEACONS'  ORD] 

§  1.  The  Bishop,  or  other  Ecclesiastical  Authority  -who 
may  have  the  superintendence  of  candidates  for  Deacons' 
Orders,  shall  take  care  that  they  pursue  their  studies  dili- 
gently and  under  proper  direction,  and  that  they  do  not  in- 
dulge in  any  vain  or  trifling  conduct,  or  in  any  amuse- 
ments likely  to  be  abused  to#liceutiousness,  or  unfavorable 
to  that  seriousness,  and  to  those  pious  and  studioiis 
habits,  which  become  those  who  are  preparing  for  the  Holy 
Ministry. 

§  2.  It  is  also  to  be  made  known  to  every  candidate,  that 
the  Church  expects  of  him,  an  inward  fear  and  worship 
of  Almighty  God,  a  love  of  Christ,  a  sensibility  to  holy 
influences,  a  habit  of  devout  affection,  and,  in  short,  a 
cultivation  of  all  those  graces  which  are  called  in  Scripture, 
the  fruits  of  the  Spirit,  by  which  alone  Hi?-  sacred  influences 
can  be  manifested. 

§  3.  ~No  candidate  for  Deacons'  Orders  shall  take  upon 
Lay  Readers,  himself  to  perform  the  service  of  the  Church  but  by  a  license 
from  the  Bishop,  or,  if  there  be  no  Bishop,  from  the  cleri- 
cal members  of  the  Standing  Committee,  of  the  Diocese  in 
which  such  candidate  may  wish  to  perform  the  service. 
And  such  candidate  shall  submit  to  all  the  regulations  which 
the  Bishop,  or  said  clerical  members,  may  prescribe.  He 
.shall  not  use  the  absolution  or  benediction ;  he  shall  not 
assume  the  dress  appropriate  to  clergymen  ministering  in 
the  congregation;  he  shall  conform  to  the  directions  of  the 
Bishop,  or  said  clerical  members,  as  to  the  sermons  or  homi- 
lies to  be  read :  nor  shall  any  such  Lay  Header  deliver  ser- 
mons of  his  own  composition,  but,  may  make  addresses  or 
exhortations  by  the  permission  of  the  Bishop  of  the  Diocese, 
and  by  the  farther  permission  of  the  Minister  of  the  Parish, 
if  within  the  limits  of  a  Parish. 

§  4.  No  candidate  for -Orders  shall  be  permitted  to  accept 
from  any  Diocesan  Council  an  appointment  as  a  Lay  Deputy 
to  the  House  of  Deputies  of  the  General  Council. 

§  5.  A  candidate  for  Deacons'  Orders  may,  on  Letters 
Dimissory  from  the  Ecclesiastical  Authority  of  the  Diocese 
to  which  he  belongs,  be  transferred  to  the  jurisdiction  of 
any  Bishop  in  this  Church;  and  if  there  be  a  Bishop  of  the 
Diocese  where  the,  candidate  resides,  he  shall  apply  to  no 


Restrictions. 


'-.  t   sllgtble  IX 
General  Council. 


Transfer  to 
r  Diooesei . 


TITLE  [.—OF  OANDIDATEgHIP  AND  ORDINATIONS.  13 

other  Bishop  for  ordination  without  the  permission  of  the     Canon  m 
former.  '-— v — ' 

§6.  Xo  candidate  shall  change  his  canonical  residence  fcow»ofttwi» 
but  for  causes  sufficient  in  the  judgment  of  the  Ecclesiasti- 
cal Authority ;  nor  shall  an}*  candidate  be  dismissed  from 
the  Diocese  in  which  lie  was  admitted,  or  to  which  he  has 
been  duly  transferred,  for  the  convenience  of  attending  any 
theological  or  other  seminary. 


CV.I10I1. 


f  reje 


("AXON  IV. 

(  ENERAL  PROVISIONS  AND  REQUISITES  FOE  ORDINATION". 

§  1*.  Xo  Bishop  shall  ordain  any  candidate  until  he  has  pmioua  appu, 
enquired  of  him  whether  he  has  ever,  directly  or  indirectly, 
applied  for  Holy  Orders  in  any  other  Diocese  ;  and,  if  the 
Bishop  has  reason  to  believe  that  the  candidate  has  been 
refused  Holy  Orders  in  any  other  Diocese,  he  shall  write  to 
the  Ecclesiastical  Authority  thereof  to  know  whether  any 
just  cause  exists  why  the  candidate  should  not  be  ordained. 
When  any  Bishop  rejects  an  application  for  J  [oly  Orders,  he 
shall  immediately  give  notice  to  the  Ecclesiastical  Authority 
of  every  Diocese. 

s;  2.  Deacons'   Orders  shall  not   be  conferred  on  any  per-     AgeforOrdina. 
son  until  he  shall  bo  twenty-one  years  old.   nor   Priests' 
Orders  until  he  shall  be  twenty-four  years  old. 

§  3.  Eyerv  candidate  for  Holy  <  >rders  who  may  be  reeoin-    < 
mended  by  the  Standing  Committee  of  any  Diocese  desti 
tute  of  a  Bishop,  if  lie  have  resided  for  the  greater  part  of 
three  years  last  past  within  the  Diocese  of  a  Bishop,  shall 
apply  to  such  Bishop  for  ordination.     And  such  candidate 
shall  produce  the  usual  testimonials,  as  well  from  the  Cor,: 
mittee  of  the  Diocese  in  which  he  has  resided,  as  from  the 
Committee  of  the  Diocese  for  which  he  is  to  be  ordained. 

$  4.  XTo  Bishop  of  this  Church  shall  ordain  any  person  to  m»of- 

officiate  as  a  Priest  in  any  Congregation  or  Church  not oonf&aeratestatesl 
under  Episcopal  supervision,  and  situated  beyond  the  juris- 
diction of  these  Confederate  States,  until  no  shall  have 
received  from  his  Standing  Committee  the  usual  testimony, 
founded  upon  sufficient  evidence  of  the  soundness  in  the 
faith,  an  e pious  and  moral  cha  'applicant. 


14 


Times  of  Ordi 
nation. 


TITLE  i.     OF   CANDIDATESHIP  AND  ORDINATIONS. 

nor  until  he  Las  been  examined  on  the  studies  prescribed  by 
the  Canons  of  this  Church;  and  should  any  clergyman,  so 
ordained,  wish  thereafter  to  settle  in  any  congregation  of 
this  Church,  he  must  obtain  a  special  license  therefor  from 
the  Bishop,  and  officiate  as  a  probationer  for  at  least  one  year. 
§  5.  Agreeably  to  the  practice  of  the  Primitive  Church, 
the  stated  times  of  ordination  shall  be  on  the  Sundays  fol- 
lowing the  Ember  weeks.  Special  ordinations  may  be  held 
at  such  other  times  as  the  Bishop  shall  appoint. 


Limitation 
Candidateship 


CANON  V. 

EXAMINATIONS    AND  TESTIMONIALS  FO I  £  DEACONS1 
OEDKUS  AND  ORDINATION. 

§  1 .  Every  person  hereafter  to  be  ordained  Deacon  in  this 
Examination.  Church,  shall  be  examined  by  the  Bishop  and  two  Presby- 
ters, on  Moral  Philosophy  and  Rhetoric,  the  Holy  Scrip- 
tures and  the  Book  of  Common  Prayer,  and  they  shall 
enquire  into  his  fitness  for  the  ministrations  declared  in  the 
Ordinal  to  appertain  to  the  office  of  a  Deacon,  and  be  satis- 
fied thereof. 

§.2.  If  any   candidate    for   Deacons'    Orders    shall    not, 
within  three  years  after  his  admission,  apply  to  be  ordained, 
he  shall  cease  to  be  a  candidate,  and  unless  the  Bishop  shall 
see  fit  to  allow  longer  time,  he  shall  notify  him  in  writing, 
that  he  is  no  longer  a  candidate,  and  shall  immediately  give 
notice  of  the  same  to  the  Ecclesiastical  Authority  of  every 
Diocese. 
period  of  can-      §  3.  No  person  shall  be  ordained  Deacon  in  this  Church 
?iiEo5ftiSd«Sm'  unt^  ^1C  sna^  have -remained  a  candidate  for  Tloly  Orders  at 
standing  commit-  ]east  one  year,  and  until  he  shall  exhibit  to  the  Bishop  tes- 
timonials from  the  Standing  Committee  of  the  Diocese  for 
which  he  is  to  be  ordained,  which  shall  be  signed  by  a  ma- 
jority of  all  the  Committee,  the  Committee  being  duly  con- 
vened, and  which  shall  be  in  the  following  words: 

"  We,  whose  names  are  hereunder  written,  testify  that  A.  B.  hath  laid 
before  us  satisfactory  testimonials,  that  for  the  space  of  three  years  lasl 
past,  he  hath  lived  piously,  soberly  and  honestly,  and  hath  not  written, 
taught  or  held  anything  contrary  to  the  doctrine  or  discipline  Of  the 
Protestant  Episcopal  Ohurch  in  the  Confederate  States;  and,  moreover,, 
we  think  him  a  person  worthy  to  be  admitted  to  the  sacred  Order  of 
Deacons.  In  witness  whereof,  we  have  hereunto'  set  t>ur  hands, 
dav  of  — : — .  i;i  the  rear  of  our  Lord ."" 


TITLE  [.—OF  CANDIDATESHIP  A.\l>  ORDINATIONS.  15 

§  4.  But  before  a  Standing  Committee  shall  proceed  to     canon  v. 
recommend  any  candidate,  as  aforesaid,  to  the  Bishop,  such    ,^~~-^~~/ 
candidate  shall  produce  from  the  Minister  and  Vestry  of  the  standing  commit- 
parish  where  he  resides,  or  from  the  Arestry  alone,  if  the  par- 
ish be  vacant ;  or,  if  there  be  no  Vestry,  from  at  least  six 
respectable  persons  of  this  Church,  testimonials  of  his  piety. 
good  morals  and  orderly  conduct,  in  the  fol lowing  words: 

•' We,  whose  name*  are  hereunder  written,  do  testify  from  evidence 
satisfactory  to  us,  that  A.  !>.,  for  the  space  of  three  years  last  past,  hath 
lived  piously,  soherly  and  honestly,  and  hath  not,  so  far  as  we  know  or 
believe,  written,  taught  or  held  anything  contrary  to  the  doctrine  or  dis- 
cipline of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  ill  the  Confederate  States ; 
and,  moreover,  we  think  him  a  person  worthy  to  be  admitted  to  the  sacred 
Order  of  Deacons.  In  witness  whereof,  we  have  hereunto  set  our  hands, 
this day  of ,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord ." 

He  shall   also  lay  before  the  Standing  Committee  testi-  Testimonial. &om 
monials  signed  by  at  least  one  respectable  Presbyter  of  this  ' 
Church,  which  testimonials  sliall  be  in  the  following  words: 

••  I  do  certify  that  A.  r>..  for  the  space  of  three  years  last  past,  hath 
lived  piously,  soberly  and  honestly,  and  hath  not,  solar  as  1  know  or  be- 
lieve, written,  taught  or  held  anything  contrary  to  the  doctrine  or  dis- 
cipline of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  in  the  Confederate  states: 
and,  moreover,  we  think  him  a  person  worthy  to  be  admitted  to  the  sacred 
Order  of  Deacons.  This  testimonial  is  founded  on  my  persona]  knowl- 
edge of  the  said  A.  B.  for  one  year  last  past,  and  for  the  residue  ot  the 
said  time  upon  evidence  that  is  satisfactory  to  me.     In  witness  whereof, 

I  have  hereunto  set  my  hand,  this day  of  — — ,  in  the  year 

of  our  Lord -." 

^  5.  But  in  case  a  candidate,  from  some  peculiar  circum-  substitute  testi- 
stances  not  affecting  his  pious  or  moral  character,  shall  be"'' 
unable  to  procure  testimonials  from  the  Minister  and  Ves- 
try of  the  Parish  wherein  he  resides,  the  Standing  Com- 
mittee may  accept  testimonials  of  the  purport  above  stated. 
from  at  least  twelve  respectable  members/ and  one  respec- 
table Presbyter  of  this  Church,  which  Presbyter  shall  have 
been  personally  acquainted  with  the  candidate  for  at  least 
one  year. 

§  <>.  Candidates  who,  not  having  Episcopal   ordination,    candidates  awn 

•*  tit  -i    •     '    -i  i-      x  i  •     .  'other-   denomina- 

have  been  acknowledged  as  ordained  or  licensed  ministers ti""-- 
in  any  denomination  of  Christians,  may,  at  the  expiration 
of  not  less  than  six  months  from  their  admission  as  candi- 
dates, be  ordained  Deacons,  on  their  passing  the  same  ex- 
aminations as  other  candidates  for  Deacons'  Orders,  and,  in 
the  examinations,  special  regard  shall  be  had  to  those 
points  in  which  i\w  denomination  whence  they  came  differs 
from  this  Church,  with  a  view  of  testing  their  information 


6  TITLE  L— OF  CANDIDATESHIP  AND  OJtDINATIONS. 

c  on  v       an(^  soundness  in  the  same;  and,  also,  of  ascertaining-  that 
w^_^     they  are  adequately  acquainted  with  the  Liturgy  and  Of- 
fices of  this  Church :  Provided,  that  in  their  case  the  testi- 
monials shall  be  required  to  cover  only  the  time  since  their 
admission  as  candidates  for  Holy  Orders. 
candinatos  ftom      §  ^'  ^rhcn  airy  person,  not  a  citizen  of  the  Confederate 
other  countries.     States,  who  has  been  acknowledged  as  an  ordained  or  li- 
censed minister  in  any  denomination  of  Christians,  shall 
apply  for  Orders  in  this  Church,  the  Bishop,  to  whom  the 
application  is  made,  shall  require  of  him  (in  addition  to  the 
above  qualifications)  satisfactory  evidence  that  he  has  re- 
sided at  least  one  year  in  the  Confederate  States   previous 
to  his  application. 


CAKON  VI. 

0  F    D  E  A  C  0  K  S 


Control  of  De 
con  3. 


§  1.  Every  Deacon  shall  be  subject  to  the  regulation  of 
the  Bishop,  or,  if  there  be  no  Bishop,  of  the  clerical  mem- 
bers of  the  Standing  Committee  of  the  Diocese  for  which 
he  is  ordained,  until  he  receive  letters  dimissory  to  the 
Ecclesiastical  Authority  of  some  other  Diocese,  and  be 
thereupon  received  as  a  Clergyman  of  such  other  Diocee  ; 
and  he  shall  officiate  in  such  places  as  the  Bishop,  or  the 
said  clerical  members,  may  direct. 
conditions  of  or-  §  2.  ~No  Deacon  shall  be  settled  over  a  1  'ariah  or  Conarega- 
tion ;  nor  shall  any  Deacon  officiate  in  any  Parish  or  Congre- 
gation, without  the  express  consent  of  the  Rector  for  the  time 
being,  where  there  is  a  Rector  ;  nor  in  any  case  without  the 
assent  of  the  Bishop;  and  when  officiating  in  the  Parish 
or  Congregation  of  a  Rector,  he  shall  be  entirely  subject  to 
the  direction  of  such  Rector  in  all  his  ministrations. 
§  3.  No  Deacon  shall  bo  transferred  to  another  Dio 
transfer.  without  the  written  request  of  the  Bishop,  to  whos<  juris- 
diction he  is  to  be  transferred. 


CAXoX  VII. 

ORDINATION  T(>  THE  PRIESTHOOl); 

in£toTriesteM)r-     §  *■  Whenever  a  Deacon  shall  determine  to  pr< 

tiers.  ■  pr];estg'  Orders,  he  shall  give  to  the  Bis'lsop  written  no1 


TITLE  J. — CJI--  CANDIDATESJUP  AND  ORDINATIONS.  17 

of  such  intention  ;  whereupon  the  Bishop  shall  record  the     uanpnvn. 
notice  in  a  book  to  be  kept  by  him'  for  this  purpose,  and     w"v — ' 
shall  appoint  and  direct  the  studies  of  the  Deacon  accord- 
ingly. 

§  2.  Every  Deacon  desiring  to  receive  Priests'  Orders  Examinations »« 
shall  stand  three  different  examinations,  at  such  times  and rie 
places  as'the  Bishop,  to  whom  he  applies  for  Holy  Orders, 
shall  appoint.  The  examination  shall  take  place  in  the 
presence  of  the  Bishop  and  two  or  more  Presbyters.  The 
lirst  examination  shall  be  on  the  books  of  Scripture,  the  First, 
candidate  being  required  to  give  an  account  of  the  differ- 
ent books,  to  translate  from  the  original  Greek  and  He- 
brew, and  to  explain  such  passages  as  may  be  proposed  to 
him.  The  second  examination  shall  he  on  the  evidences  . 
of  Christianity  and  Systematic  Divinity,  and  the  last  ex-  Last, 
animation  shall  be  on  Church  History,  Ecclesiastical  Polity, 
the  Book  of  Common  Prayer,  and  the  Constitution  and 
Canons  of  the  Church,  and  of  the  Diocese  for  which  he  is 
to  be  ordained.  lie  shall  be  examined  also  as  to  his  knowl- 
edge of  the  Latin  tongue,  and  of  such  studies  as  the  Bishop 
shall  have  prescribed  for  him,  At  each  of  the  forjemen- 
tioned  examinations  he  shall  produce  and  read  a  sermon 
or  discourse,  composed  by  himself,  on  some  passage  of 
Scripture,  previously  assigned  to  him,  which,  together  with 
two  other  sermons  or  discourses  on  some  passage  or  pas- 
sages of  Scripture  s61ectcd  by  himself,  shall  be  submitted 
to  the  criticisms  of  the  Bishop  and  clergy  present ;  and, 
before  his  ordination,  he  shall  be  required  to  perform  such 
exercises  In  reading,  in  the  presence  of  the  Bishop  and 
clergy,  as  may  enable  them  to  give  him  such  advice  and 
instructions  as  may  aid  him  in  performing  the  services  of 
the  Church,  and  delivering  his  sermons  with  propriety  and 
devotion.    ■ 

§  3.  When  a  Deacon,  applying  to  be  admitted  to  Priests'  Dispensations. 
Orders,  wishes  knowledge  of  the  Latin,  Greek  and  lie- 
brew  languages,  and  other  branches  of  learning  not  strictly 
ecclesiastical,  to  be  dispensed  with,  the  Standing  Committee 
shall  not  recommend  him  for  Priests'  Orders  until  he  shall 
have  laid  before  them  a  testimonial  signed  by  at  least  two 
Presbyters  of  this  Church,  stating  that,  in  their  opinion,  he 
possesses  a  peculiar  aptitude  to  teach,  and  a  large  share  of 
prudence;  and  the  Bishop,  witli  the  consent  of  the  Stand- 
ing Committee,  shall  have  granted  the  dispensation.  But 
in  regard  to  a  knowledge  of  the  Hebrew  language,  the 
Bishop  shall  have  the  sole  power  of  dispensation. 
3 


lg  <  TITLE!.     <»:■"  CANDIDA'!  R3HH'   AND  ORDINATIONS. 

CanauVJI.  §    -1.    J  J  *    U  J  >i0CeSC  where    tl  IC1V  18  110  J  fistlOp,  tllO  Dcacoll 

s— "v — '     shall  be  examined  by  the  Bishop  to  whom  lie  applies  for 
r,  tv'"<V  c'    s  Holy  Orders,  and  by  two  or  more  Presbyters  appointed  for 
that  purpose  by  the  said  Bishop. 

§  5.  No  person  shall  be  ordained  u  Priest  in  this  Church 
ate**  until  he  shall  have  exhibited  to  the  Bishop  testimonials 
from  the  Standing  Committee  of  the  Diocese  for  which  he 
is  to  be  ordained,  which  testimonials  shall  be  signed  with  the 
names  of  a  majority  of  all  the  Committee,  the  Committee 
being  duly  convened, and  shall  be  in  the  following  words: 

••  We,  whose  name-  sre  underwritten,  members  of  the  Standing  Com- 
mittee of  the  l')iocc>e  of  — ,  do  testify  that  the  Rev.  A.  15.,  Deacon, 

hath  lai<i  before  ns  satisfactory  testimonials,  that  for  the  space  of  three 
years  Last  past,  lie  hath  lived  piously,  soberly  and  honestly,  and  hath  not 
written,  taught  or  held  anything  contrary  to  the  doctrine  or  discipline  of 
the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  in  the  Confederate  States;  and,  more- 
over, we  think  him  a  person  worthy  to  he  admitted  to  the  sacred  Order 
of  Pri,ests.  In  witness  whereof,  we  have  hereunto  set  our  hands  this 
day  of  — '■ — ,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  — .'* 

Testimonial*  i  lmt  before  the  Standing  Committee  shall  proceed  to  re- 
tee.  '"  '  commend  any  Deacon,  as  aforesaid,  to  the  Bishop,  such 
Deacon  shall  produce  from  the  Minister  and  Vestry  of  the 
Parish  where  he  resides,  or,  if  the  Parish  be  vacant,  from 
the  Vestry  alone,  testimonials  of  his  piety,  good  morals  and 
orderly  conduct,  m  the  following  words  : 

"  Wc,  whose  names  are  hereunder  written,  do  testify  that  the  Hev.  A. 
15.,  Deacon,  hath,  for  the  Kjiace  of  three  years  last  pa«t,  lived  pionsly, 
soberly  and  honestly',  and  hath  not,  so  far  as  we  know  or  believe,  writ- 
ten, taught  or  held  anything  contrary  ;<>  the  doctrine  or  discipline  of  the 
Protestant  Episcopal  Church  in  the  Confederate  States;  and,  moreover. 
v\-e  think  him  a  person  worthy  to  be  admitted  to  th>;  saered  Order  oi 

Priests.     In  witness  whereof,  wo  have  hereunto  set  pdr  hands  this 

day  of— ,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  ■ ." 

TesumQuiaisftoii.  He  shall  also  lay  before  tin:  Standing  Committee  testi- 
monials  signed  by  at  least  one  respectable  Preshyter  of  this 
Church,  in  the  following  form: 

"I  do  certify,  that  the  I«ev.  A.  B.,  Deacon,  has,  for  the  spaoe  of  three 
\c-ars  hist  past,  lived  piously,  soberly,  iind  honestly,  and  lias  not,  so  far  as 
I  know  or  believe,  written,  taught  or  held  anything  contrary  to  the  doc- 
tririe  or  discipline  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  in  the  Confeder- 
ate Slates;  and,  moreover,  I  think  him  a  person  worthy  to  he  admitted 
lo  the  sacred' Order  of  Priests.  This  testimonial  is  founded  on  my  per- 
gonal knowledge  of  the  said  licv.  A.  B.,  Deacon,  for  one  year  last  past, 
and  for  the  residue  of  the  said  time  upon  evidence  that  is  satisfactory  to 

me.    In  witness  whereef,  I  Aave  hereunto  set  my  hand  this   day 

of ,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord ." 

substitute itM  §  C).  .But  in  ease  an  applicant  for  Priests'  Orders  shall, 
from  peculiar  circumstances,  not  affecting  his  pious  or  moral 

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TITLE  [-    OF  CANDID'ATESIHT  AND  OIID1NATIONS.  1 1 ) 

t 

character,  be  unable  to  procure  testimonials  from  the  Minis-  uauou  vn. 
ter  and  Vestry  of  the  Parish  where  he  resides,  or  in  case  of 
there  being  no  Vestry,  the  Standing  Committee  may  accept 
testimonials  of  the  purport  above  stated  from  at  least 
twelve  respectable  members,  and  from  at  least  one  respect- 
able Presbyter  of  this  Church,  who  has  been  personally  ac- 
quainted with  the  candidate  for  at  least  one  year. 


(AXON    VIII. 

<>F    T1IK   ADMISSION  OF    MINISTERS  ORDAINED   BY    IHHHOI'S 
\'<>T  i>;  COMMUNION   WITH  THIS  CHURCrtJ 


When  a  Deacon  or  Priest,  ordained  by  a  Bishop  not  in  uiuistenjonkinr 
communion  with  this  Church,  shall  apply  to  :i  Bishop  for ^commifnlT^t'b 
admission  into  the  same  as  a  minister  thereof,  he  shall  pro-'!"?r,"m'!'- 
duce  a  written  certificate  from  at  least  two  Presbyters  of 
this  Church,  stating  that,  from  personal  knowledge  of  him. 
orsatisfaetory  evidence  laid  before  them,  they  believe  that 
his  desire  to  leave  the  communion  to  which  he  lias  be- 
longed has  not  arisen  from  any  circumstance  unfavorable 
to  his  moral  or  religious  character,  or  on  account  of  which 
it  may  be  inexpedient  to  admit  him  to  the  exercise,  of  the 
ministry  in  this  Church;  and  he  shall  also,  not  less  than  six 
months  after  his  application,  in  the  presence  of  the  .Bishop 
and  two  or  more  presbyters,  subscribe  the  declaration  con- 
tained in  Article  IX.  of  the  Constitution^  which  being- 
done,  the  Bishop,  being  satisfied  of  his  theological  acquire- 
ments, mnv  receive  him  as  such  minister. 


CAXOX    IX. 

OF  MINISTERS  ORDAINED   rNFpfiESGK  CO!  NTEIES   BY  RISII 
OPS  IN  COMMUNION  WITH  THIS  CHURCH. 

$  1.   A  clergyman  coming  from  a  foreign  country,  and  cdi|^;j^l(;^; 
professing  to  have  been   ordained  out  oi'  the  Confederate  ^f^^f^V;; 
States  by  a  foreign  Bishop  in  communion  with  this  Church,""  ChOTrt- 
or  by  a  Bishop  consecrated  for  a*  foreign  country  by  Bish- 
ops of  this  Church  under   Article  XT.  of  the  Constitution. 


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TITLE  L— Of  CANDIDATESH1P  AND  ORDINATIONS 


Canon  I\'. 


Certificate 


Letteu    Dim] 
»ery. 


or  by  a  Missionary  Bishop  elected  to  exercise  Episcopal 
functions  in  any  place  or  places  out  of  the  Confederate 
States,  shall,  before  he  be  permitted  to  officiate  in  any 
Parish  or  Congregation,  exhibit  to  the  Minister,  or,  if  there 
be  no  Minister,  to  the  Vestry  thereof,  a  certificate  signed 
by  the  Bishop  of  the  Diocese,  or,  if  there  be  no  Bishop, 
by  the  Standing  Committee  duly  convened,  that  his  letters 
or  Holy,  Orders  are  authentic,  and  given  by  some  Bishop 
in  communion  with  this  Church,  and  whose  authority  is  ac- 
knowledged by  this  Church;  and,  also, 'that  he  has  ex- 
hibited to  the  Bishop  or  Standing  Committee  satisfactory 
evidence  of  his  pious  and  moral  character,  and  of  his  theo- 
logical acquirements  ;  and,  in  any  case,  before  he  shall  be 
permitted  to  settle  in  any  Church  or  Parish,  or  be  received 
into  union  with  any  Diocese  of  this  Church  as  a  minister 
thereof,  he  shall  produce  to  the  Ecclesiastical  Authority 
thereof,  letters  dimissory  under  the  hand  and  seal  of  the 
Bishop  with  whose  Diocese  he  has  been  last  connected 
which  letters  shall  be,  in  substance,  those  provided  for  in 
Section  7  of  Canon  II.  ,of  Title  II.,  and  shall  be  delivered 
within  six  months  from  the  date  thereof;  and  when  such 
clergyman  shall  have  been  so  received,  he  shall  be  con- 
sidered as  having  passed  entirely  from  the  jurisdiction  of 
the  Bishop  from  whom  the  letters  dimissory  were  brought,  ' 
to  the  full  jurisdiction  of  the  Ecclesiastical  Authority  by 
whom  they  shall  have  been  accepted,  and  become  thereby 
subject  to  all  the  canonical  provisions  of"  this  Church  :  Pro- 
vided, that  no  such  clergyman  shall  be  so  received  into 
union  with  any  Diocese  until  he  shall  have  subscribed,  in 
the  presence  of  the  Bishop  of  the  Diocese  in  which  he  ap- 
plies for  reception,  and  of  two  or  more  Presbyters,  the  dec- 
laration contained  in  Article  IX.  of  the  Constitution: 
which  being  done,  said  Bishop  or  Standing  Committee, 
being  satisfied  of  his  theological  acquirements,  may  receive 
him  into  union  with  this  Church  as  a  minister  of  the  same: 
Provided,  also,  that  such  minister  shall  not  be  entitled  to  settle 
iu  any  Parish  or  Church,  as  canonically  in  charge  of  the 
same,  uutil  he  shall,  subsequently  to  the  acceptance  of  his 
letters  dimissory,  have  resided  one  year  in  the  Confederate 
States. 

§  2.  And  if  such  foreign  clergyman  be  a  Deacon,  he 
shall  obtain  in  this  country  the  requisite  testimonials  of 
character,  before  he  be  ordained  a  Priest. 


TITLE    II. 

GENERAL  REGULATIONS  OF  MINISTERS 
AND  THEIR  DUTIES. 


Istera. 


(AXON  I. 

THE  CONSENT  NECESSARY  FOR  OFFICIATING. 

No  Minister  shall  officiate,  transiently  or  otherwise,  in  a  [nweor &i* 
Congregation  or  vacant  Parish,  or  in  one  the  Rector  or  Min- 
ister  of  which  is  sick  or  absent,  unless  the  Wardens,  Vestry 
or  Trustees  of  the  "Congregation  are  satisfied  that  he  is  at  the 
time  an  Episcopally  ordained  Minister  in  good  and  regular 
standing.  When  from  another  Diocese,  letters  commenda- 
tory from  the  Ecclesiastical  Authority  thereof  may  be  re- 
quired. 


CANON  II. 

GENERAL  REGULATIONS  OF  MINISTERS. 


§  L  [1.]  It  is  hereby  required  that,  on  the  election  of  a    Eioctioa  of  arm- 
Minister  into  any  Church  or  Parish,  the  Vestry  shall  de-  iiteM- 
liver,  or  cause  to  be  delivered,  to  the  Ecclesiastical  Au- 
thority of  the  Diocese,  notice  of  the  same,  in  the  following 
form : 

"  We,  the  Church  Wardens,  (or,  in  case  of  an  Assistant  Minister,  we,     certificate  of 
the  Rector  and  Church  Wardens)  do  certify  to  the  Rt.  Rev'd,  (naming  «>e«l«. 
the  Bishop)  or  to  the  Revvd,  {naming  the  President  oj  the  Standing  Com- 
viittee)  that  (naming  the  person)  has  heen  duly  chosen  Rector  (or  assist- 
ant Minister,  as  the  case  may  be,)  of  (naming  the  Parish  or  Church.)" 

Which  certificate  shall  be  signed  with  the  names  of  those 
who  certify. 


oo  TITLE  II.    GENE11AL  KEGULATIOXd  OK  MINISTERS. 

<;^ouji.         [2.]  If  the  Ecclesiastical  Authority  be  satisfied  that  the 

'"^~v— ^     person  so  chosen  is  a  quaiiiied  Minister  of  ibis  Church,  the 

said  Ecclesiastical  Authority  shall  transmit  the  said  certiti' 

cate  to  the  Secretary  of  the  Council,  "who  shall  record  it  in 

a  book  to  be  kept  by  him  for  that  purpose. 

i    i  [3.]  And  if  the  Minister  be  a  Presbyter,  the  Ecclesiasti- 

cal Authority  ma}',  at  the  instance  of  the  Vestry,  proceed 
lo  have  him  instituted  according  to  the  Office  established 
by  this  Church,  if  that  Office  be  used  in  the  Diocese.  This 
provision,  concerning  the  use  of  the  Office  of  Institution, 
is  not  to  be  considered  as  applying  to  any  Congregation 
destitute  of  a  house  of  worship. 
certificate  to      §  2.  No  Minister,  removing  from  one  Diocese  or  Mission- 

rrom  w»  Mocrae  ary  District  to  another,  shall  officiate  as  the  Rector,  Stated 
Minister,  or  Assistant  Minister  of  any  Parish  or  Congrega- 
tion of  the  Diocese  or  District  to  which  he  removes,  until 
he  shall  have  obtained  from  the  Ecclesiastical  Authority  a 
certificate  m  the  words  following  : 

••  I  hereby  certify  Hint  the  Rev.  A.  6.  has  been  canonical!}-  transferred 

to  my  jurisdiction,  and  is  a  Minister  in  regular  standing.*' 

Juauat  coimim-  §  3.  The  Alms  and  Contributions  at  the  administration  of 
the  Holy  Communion  shall  be  deposited  with  the  Minister  of 
the  Parish,  or  with  such  Church  officer  as  shall  be  appointed 
by  him,  to  be  applied  by  the  Minister,  or  under  his  super- 
intendence, to  such  pious  and  charitable  uses  as  shall  by 
him  be  thought  fit. 

Da\Y  of  Mini*  §  4.  [1.]  It  sball  be  the  duty  of  Ministers  to  prepare  young 
«£rti?M.ut  '  persons  and  others  for  the  holy  ordinance  of  Confirmation. 
And  on  notice  being  received  from  the  Bishop  of  his  inten- 
tion to  visit  any  Church  for  the  purpose  of  administering 
that  rite,  which  notice  shall  be  at  least  one  month  before  the 
intended  visitation,  the  Minister  shall  give  immediate  notice 
to  his  parishioners,  individually,  as  opportunity  may  offer, 
and  also  to  the  Congregation  on  the  first  occasion  of  public 
worship  after  the  receipt  of  said  notice.  And  he  shall  be 
ready  to  present  for  confirmation  such  persons  as  he  shall 
think  properly  quaiiiied,  and  shall  deliver  to  the  Bishop  a 
list  of  the  names  of  those  confirmed. 

jiMuuhectau      [2.1  And  at  every  visitation  the  Minister  and  Church 

«<*.  Wardens,  or  Vestry,  shall  lay  before  the  Bishop,  it  required, 

the  Parish  records,  and  give  information  to  him  of  the  state 

of  the  Congregation,  under  such  heads  as  shall  have  been 

committed  to  them  in  the  notice  given  as  aforesaid. 

tot  u-  ]>:<  v      [3.1  And  further,  the  Ministers  and  Church  Wardens  of 


rti  Oonortl. 


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year,  shall  bring  or  send  to  the  Bishop,  at  the  stated  meet-      cwwrair. 
ing  of  1he  Council  of  the  Diocese,  information  of  the  state     s"~~s — ' 
of  the  Congregation1;  under  such  heads  as  shall  have  been 
committed  to  them  at  least  one  month  before  the  meeting 
of  the  Council. 

§  5.  [11.]  Every  Minister  of  this  Church  shall  keep  ;t  reg-  itamne&aa*. 
iste*  of  baptisms,  confirmations,  communicants,  mamagee 
and  funerals,  within  his  cure,  agreeably  to  such  rules  as  may 
be  provided  by  the  Council  of  the  Diocese  where  his  cure 
lies ;  and  if  none  such  be  provided,  then  in  such  manner  as 
in  his  discretion  he  shall  think  best  suited  to  the  uses  of 
such  a  register. 

[2.]  The  intention  of  the  Register  of  Baptisms  is  hereby   t„Ki.v,  .<;.,„.,;. 
declared  to  be,  as  for  other  good  uses,  so  especially  for  the  ' """' *rtWp- 
proving  of  the  right  of  the  Church-membership  of  those 
who  may  have  been  admitted  into  this  Church  by  the  holy 
ordinance  of  Baptism. 

[3.]  Every  Minister  of  this  Church  shall  make* out  and  lm  or  buhium. 
continue,  as  far  as  practicable,  a  list  of  all  families  and  adult 
persons  within  his  cure,  which,  with  all  other  Parish  records 
in  his  keeping,  shall,  in  case  of  his  removal,  be  entrusted  to 
the  "Wardens  of  the  Church,  to  remain  for  the  use  of  his 
successor,  to  be  continued  by  him  and  by  every  future  Min- 
ister in  the  same  Parish. 

§6.  II.]   Xo  Minister   belonging   to   this   Church  shall    officiating  * 

£C    •    i-  *a1  1  1  •  J-  ±1  •  Ministers  In  "tlj. 

otnciate,  either  by  preaching,  reading  prayers  or  otherwise,  cures  or «tbe»- 
in  the  Parish,  or  within  the  parochial  cure  of  another  cler- 
gyman, without  the  consent  of  the  Minister  of  the  Parish  or 
cure,  or,  in  his  absence,  of  the  Church  Wardens  and  Vestry-  • 

men,  or  Trustees  of  the  Congregation,  or  a  majority  of  them. 

[2.]  If  any  Minister  of  this  Church,  from  inability  or  segicctoraun- 
other  cause,  fail  to  perform  the  regular  services  in  his  Con- 
gregation, and  refuse,  without  good  cause,  his  consent  to  the 
officiating  of  any  other  Minister  of  this  Church  within  his 
cure,  the  Church  Wardens,  Vestrymen"  or  Trustees  of  such 
Congregation  shall,  on  proof  of  such  failure  or  refusal  before 
the  Ecclesiastical  Authority,  or  before  such  persons  as  may 
be  deputed  thereby,  or  before  such  persons  as  may  be,  by  the 
regulations  of  this  Church  in  any  Diocese,  vested  with  the 
power  of  hearing  and  deciding  on  complaints  against  Cler- 
gymen, have  power,  with  the  written  consent  of  the  before- 
mentioned  authority,  to  open  the  doors  of  their  Church  to 
any  regular  Minister  of  this  Church. 

I  7.  [1.]  A  Minister  of  this  Church  removing  within  the  <       > 
jurisdiction  of  any  Bishop  or  other  Ecclesiastical  Authority. 


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When  to  affect 
canonical   rea- 


canon  n.      shall,  in  order  to  gain  canonical  residence  within  the  same, 

^-^-v — '  present  to  said  Ecclesiastical  Authority  a  testimonial  from 
the  Ecclesiastical  Authority  of  the  Diocese  or  Missionary 
District  in  which  he  last  resided,  which  testimonial  shall  set 
forth  his  true  standing  and  character.  The  testimonial  may 
he  in  the  following  words : 

Letter  .  ..-■  ry.     "  1  hereby  certify  that  A.  B.,  who  has  signified  to  ine  his  desire  to  be 

transferred  to  the  Ecclesiastical  Authority  of ,  is  a  Presbyter 

(or  Deacon)  of ,  in  regular  standing,  and  has  not,  so  far  as  I  know 

or  believe,  been  justly  liable  to  evil  report,  for  error  in  religion  or  vicious- 
ness  of  life*,  for  three  years  last  past." 

All  such  testimonials  shall  he  called  Letters  Dimissory. 

[2.]  Xo  such  letters  shall  affect  a  .Minister's  canonical 
residence,  until,  after  having  "been  presented  according  to 
address,  they  shall  have  been  accepted,  and  notification  of 
such  acceptance  given  to  the,  authority  whence  it  proceeded. 
The  residence  of  the  Minister  so  transferred  shall  date  from 
the  acceptance  of  his  letters  dimissory.  ff  not  presented 
within  three  months  after  date,  they  may  he  considered  as 
void  by  the  authority  whence  they  proceeded ;  and  shall  be 
so  considered,  unless  they  be  presented  within  six  months. 

[3.]  If  a  Minister,  removing  into  another  Diocese,  who 
lias  been  called  to  take  charge  of  a  Parish  or  Congregation, 
shall  present  a  testimonial  in  the  form  aforesaid,  it  shall  be 
the  duty  of  the  Ecclesiastical  Authority  of  the  Diocese  to 
which  he  has  removed,  to  accept  it,  unless  the  Bishop  or 
Standing  Committee  should  have  heard  rumors,  which  lie 
or  they  believe  to  be  well  founded,  against  the  character  of 
the  Minister  concerned,  and  which  would  form  a  proper 
ground  of  canonical  inquiry  and  presentment;  in  which 
case  the  Ecclesiastical  Authority  shall  communicate  the  same 
to  the  Ecclesiastical  Authority  of  the  Diocese  to  whose  juris- 
diction the  said  Minister  belongs;  and,  in  such  case,  it  shall 
not  be  the  duty  of  the  Ecclesiastical  Authority  to  accept  the 
testimonial  unless,  and  until  there  be  satisfactor}-  explanation 
of  such  rumors. 

[4.]  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  all  Ministers,  except  chaplains 
in  the  army  and  navy,  and  professors  and  officers  in  insti- 
tutions under  the  direction  of  the  General  Council,  to  obtain 
and  present  letters  dimissory  as  above  described,  whenever 
they  remove  from  one  Diocese  or  Missionary  District  to  any 
other  Diocese  or  Missionary  District,  whether  Domestic  or 
Foreign,  and  remain  there  for  the  space  of  six  months.  If, 
at  the  end  of  that  time,  any  Minister,  so  removing,  shall 
not  have  obtained  and  presented  such  letters,  the  Bishop  of 


1.'  c(  i  Iron. 


W  1 1  a 
tnintsd. 


When  refused. 


Letters  dimisso- 
ry, when  not  re- 
quired. 


TITLE  II.— GENERAL  REGULATIONS  OF  MINISTERS. 

the  Diocese  from  which  ho  has  removed  shall  have  the  right 
to  transfer  him  by  letters  dimissory  into  the  Diocese  of  the 
Bishop  into  whose  jurisdiction  he  has  removed. 

§  *.  A  Minister  is  settled  for  all  purposes  here  or  elsewhere 
mentioned  in  these  Canons,  who  has  been  engaged  perma- 
nently by  any  Parish,  according  to  the  rules  of  the  Diocese 
to  which  the  Parish  belongs,  or  for  any  term  not  less  than 
one  year. 


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CA^O^N"  III. 

O  F    B  r  S  IT  o  v  s . 

§  1.  To  entitle  a  Diocese  to  the  choice  of  a  Bishop  by  the 
Council  thereof,  there  must  be,  at  the  time  of  such  choice, 
and  have  been  during  the  year  previous,  a-t  least  six  officia- 
ting Presbyters  therein,  regularly  settled  in  a  Parish  or 
Church,  and  qualified  to  vote  for  a  Bishop,  and  six  or  more 
Parishes  represented  in  the  Council  electing. 

§  2.  [1.]  Whenever  the  Church  in  any  Diocese  shall  be 
desirous  of  the  consecration  of  a  Bishop  elect,  the  Standing 
Committee  of  the  Church  in  such  Diocese  shall,  by  their- 
President,  or  by  some  person  or  persons  specially  appointed, 
communicate  the  desire  to  the  Standing  Committees  of  the 
Churches  in  the  different  Dioceses,  together  with  evidence 
of  his  election,  and  a  certified  copy  of  the  following  testi- 
monial : 

Testimony  from  the  Members  of  the  Council  in  the  Diocese  from  tchence 
the  Person  is  recommended  for  Consecration. 
"We,  whose  names  are  underwritten,  fully  sensible  how  important  it 
is  that  the  sacred  officd  of  a  Bishop  should  not  be  unworthily  conferred, 
and  firmly  persuaded  that  it  is  our  duty  to  bear  testimony  on  this  solemn 
occasion,  without  partiality  or  affection,  do,  in  the  presence  of  Almighty 
God,  testify  that  A.  B.  is  not,  so  far  as  we  are  informed,  justly  liable  to 
evil  report,  either  for  error  in  religion,  or  for  viciousness  in  life,  and 
that  we  do  not  know  or  believe  there  is  any  impediment,  on  account  of 
which  he  ought  not  to  be  consecrated  to  that  Holy  Office.  We  do,  more- 
over, jointly  and  severally,  declare  that  wo  do,  in  our  conscience,  be- 
lieve him  to  be  of  such  sufficiency  in  good  learning,  such  soundness  in 
the  faith,  and  of  such  virtuous  and  pure  manners,  and  godly  conversa^ 
tiou,  that  he  is  apt  and  meet  to  exercise  the  office  of  a  Bishop  to  the 
honor  of  God,  and  the  edifying  of  His  Church,  and  to  be  a  wholesome  ex- 
ample to  the  dock  of  Christ/1 

[2.].  The  evidence  of  the  consent  of  the  Standing  Com- 
mittees shall  be  in  the  form  following  : 
3* 


Electi 
Bishop. 


Process  fur  con- 
secration. 


Testimony  from 
Diocesan  Council. 


20  TITLE  IE— (JENERAE  REVELATION'S  OF  MINISTERS. 

canon  in.  Testimony  from  the  Standing  Committee  of  (naming  the  Lioeesc). 

K>~y~~~~/  "  We,  whose  names  are  underwritten,  fully  sensible  how  important  it 
tii/stanS^Jcolu-  is  that  the  sacred  office  of  a  Bishop  should  not  be  unworthily  conferred, 
mittee.  an(j  firm]y  persuaded  that  it  is  our  duty  to  bear  testimony,  on  this  slemn 

occasion,  without  partiality  or  affection,  do,  in  the  presence  of  Almighty 
God,  testify  that  A.  B.  is  not,  so  far  as  we  are  informed,  justly  liable  to 
evil  report,  either  for  error  in  religion,  or  for  vieiousness  of  life;  an<] 
that  we  do  not  know  or  believe  there  is  any  impediment,  on  account  of 
which  he  ought  not  to  be  consecrated  to  that  Holy  Office,  but  that  he 
hath,  as  Ave  believe,  ledhis  life,  for  three  years  last  past,  piously,  soberly 
and  honestly." 

consent  of      [8.]  And  if  the  major  number  of  the  Standing  Commit- 
tees shall  consent  to  the  proposed  consecration,  the  Stand- 
ing Committee  of  the  Diocese  concerned  shall  forward  the 
evidence  of  such  consent,  together  with  other  testimonials, 
to  the  Senior  Bishop  of  this  Church,  who  shall  communi- 
cate the  same  to  all  the  Bishops  of  this  Church  in  the  Con- 
federate States;  and  if  a  majority  of  the  Bishops  consent 
to  the  consecration,  the   Senior  Bishop,  with    two  other 
Bishops,  or  any  three  Bishops  to  whom  he  may  communi- 
cate the  testimonials,  may  proceed  to  perform  the  same. 
consecration  of      [4.  J  "When  the  election  of  a  Bishop  occurs  within  the 
v1fhI\Vthrteee  three  months  preceding  the  regular  meeting  of  the  General 
raeeun|  Vf  the  Council,  the  Standing  Committee  of  the  Diocese  shall  com- 
Gencai  coundi.   municate  to  tlie  General  Council  the  desire  of  the  Diocese 
for  the  consecration  of  the  Bishop  elect,  together  with  evi- 
dence of  his  election,  and  the  testimonial  required  by  §  2, 
[1.]  of  this  Canon;  and,  if  a  majority  of  both  Orders  in  the 
House  of  Deputies  shall  consent  to  the  proposed  consecra- 
tion, and  shall  sign  and  transmit  to  the  House  of  Bishops 
the  testimony  contained  in  §  2.  [2.]  of  this  Canon  ;  and  if  a 
majority  of  the  Bishops  entitled  to  seats  in  the  House  of 
Bishops  shall  consent  to  the  proposed  consecration,  the  Pre- 
siding Bishop  shall  take  order  for  the  samfe. 
piace  of  con!--      [5.]  The  consecration  of  a  Bishop  shall,  if  practicable, 
take  place  always  in  the  Diocese  of  which  he  is  the  Bishop 
elect. 
Age.  §  8.  No  man  shall  be  consecrated  a  Bishop  of  this  Church 

until  he  shall  be  thirty  years  old. 
ant  Bish-  §  4.  Wlien  a  Bishop  of  a  Diocese  is  unable,  by  reason  of 
old  age,  or  other  permanent  cause  of  infirmity,  to  discharge 
his  Episcopal  duties,  one  Assistant  Bishop  may  be  elected 
by  and  for  the  said  Diocese,  who  shall,  in  all  cases,  succeed 
the  Bishop,  in  case  of  surviving  him.  The  Assistant  Bishop 
shall  perform  such  Episcopal  duties,  and  exercise  such  Epis- 
copal authority  in  the  Diocese,  as  the  Bishop  shall  assign  to 


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liim;  and,  in  case  of  the  Bishop's  inability  to  assign  such     canon  m. 

duties,  declared  by  the  Council  of  the  Diocese,  the  Assist-     '^~~v~^ 

ant  Bishop  shall,   during  such  inability,  perform  all  the 

duties,  and  exercise  all  the  authorities  which  appertain  to 

the  office  of  a  Bishop.     ISTo  person  shall  be  elected  or  con-   No  sunvagans. 

secrated  a  Suffragan  Bishop,  nor  shall  there  be  more  than 

one  Assistant  Bishop  in  a  Diocese  at  the  same  time. 

§  5.  [1.]  Every  Bishop  of  this  Church  shall  visit  the  tat?0pi*°1)al  viii- 
Churches  within  his  Diocese  at  least  once  in  three  years,  for 
the  purpose  of  examining  the  *etate  of  his  Church,  inspect- 
ing the  behaviour  of  his  clergy,  administering  the  apostolic 
rite  of  confirmation,  ministering  the  Word,  and  if  he  think 
fit,  administering  the  Sacrament  of  the  Lord's  Supper  to 
the  people  committed  to  his  charge,  and  shall  keep  a  register 
of  all  his  official  acts.         — 

[2.]  No  Bishop  of  this  Church  shall  reside  beyond  the  d  Episcopal  «*- 
limits  of  his  Diocese,  unless   with   the  consent  of  three    , 
fourths  of  his  Diocesan  Council  given  at  each  of  its  Sessions. 

§  6.  It  shall  be  lawful  for  any  Bishop  of  a  Diocese,  who  toBishofcataent 
is  about  to  leave  or  has  left  his  Diocese,  with  the  intention 
of  going  out  of  the  limits  of  the  Confederate  States,  or  if 
remaining  out  of  his  Diocese  for  the  space  of  three  calendar 
mouths,  although  without  leaving  the  Confederate  States, 
to  authorize,  by  writing  under  his  hand  and  seal,  the  Assist- 
ant Bishop,  or,  should  there  be  none,  the  Standing  Com- 
mittee of  such  Diocese,  to  act  as  the  Ecclesiastical  Authority 
thereof.  The  Assistant  Bishop,  or  Standing  Committee  so 
authorized,  shall  thereupon  become  the  Ecclesiastical  Au- 
thority of  such  Diocese,  to  all  intents  and  purposes,  until 
such  writing  shall  be  revoked,  or  the  Bishop  shall  return 
within  the  Diocese :  Provided,  That  nothing  in  this  Canon 
shall  be  so  construed  as  to  prevent  any  Bishop,  who  may  have 
signed  such  writing,  from  exercising  his  jurisdiction  himself, 
so  far  as  the  same  may  be  practicable,  during  his  absence 
from  his  Diocese,  or  from  permitting  and  authorizing  any 
other  Bishop  to  perform  Episcopal  offices  for  him. 

§  7.  The  Bishop  of  each  Diocese  may  compose  forms  of  ^E^ 
prayer  or  thanksgiving,  as  the  case  may  require,  for  extra-  ^^J^*^3^ 
ordinary  occasions,  and  transmit  them  to  each  Clergyman 
within  his  Diocese,  whose  duty  it  shall  be  to  use  such  forms 
in  his  Church  on  such  occasions.  And  the  Clergy  in  those 
States  or  Dioceses,  or  other  places  within  the  bounds  of  this 
Church,  in  which  there  is  no  Bishop,  may  use  the  formof 
prayer  or  thanksgiving  composed  by  the  Bishop  of  any  Dio- 
cese. The  Bishop  in  each  Diocese  may  also  compose  forms  of 
prayer  to  be  used  before  legislative  and  other  public  bodies. 


Og  TITLE  II.— GENERAL  REGULATIONS  OF  MINISTERS. 

canon  in.  §  8.  Any  Bishop  exercising  jurisdiction,  may,  on  the  in- 

N — v — '     vitation  of  the  Council  or  the  Standing  Committee  of  any 

va?apnf^occs«;iD  Diocese  where  there  is  no  Bishop,  or  where  the  Bishop  is, 
for  the  time,  under  a  disability  to  perform  Episcopal  Offices 
by  reason  of  a  judicial  sentence,  visit  and  perform  Episcopal 
Offices  in  that  Diocese,  or  in  any  part  thereof;  and  this 
invitation  may  be  tcmporaiw,  and  it  may  at  any  time  be 
revoked. 

sion^Ti'shop'.15'  §  9.  [1.]  The  House  of  Deputies  may,  from  time  to  time, 
on  nomination  by  the  House  of  Bishops,  elect  a  suitable 
person  to  be  a  Bishop  of  this  Church,  to  exercise  Episcopal 
functions  dn  States  or  Territories  not  organized  into  Dio- 

dem*o? ekrtton? ceses.  The  evidence  of  such  election  shall  be  a  certificate, 
to  be  subscribed  by  a  constitutional  majority  of  said  House 
of  Deputies,  in  the  form  required  by  §  2.  of  this  Canon  to 
be  given  by^the  members  of  Diocesan  Councils,  on  the  re- 
commendation of  Bishops  elect  for  consecration,  which 
certificate  shall  be  produced  to  the  House  of  Bishops ;  and 
if  the  House  of  Bishops  shall  consent  to  the  consecration, 
they  may  take  order  for  that  purpose. 
jurisdiction.  [2.]  The  Bishop  so  elected  and  consecrated  shall  exercise 
Episcopal  functions  in  such  States  and  Territories,  in  con- 
formity with  the  Constitution  and  Canons  of  this  Church, 
and  under  such  regulations  and  instructions,  not  inconsis- 
tent therewith,  as  the  House  of  Bishops  may  prescribe  ; 
and  the  House  of  Bishops  may  at  any  time  increase  or  di- 
minish the  number  of  States  or  Territories  over  which  the 
said  Bishop  or  Bishops  shall  exercise  Episcopal  functions. 
vacancy.  [3.]  In  case  of  the  death  or  resignation  of  a  Missionary 

Bishop,  or  of  vacancy  by  other  cause,  the  charge  of  the 
vacant  Missionary  Episcopate  shall,  until  another  Bishop  be 
elected  and  consecrated,  devolve  on  the,  senior  Bishop  of 
this  Church,  with  the  power  of  appointing  some  other 
Bishop  as  his  substitute  in  said  charge. 

cesan!giWe as Do'  [4-]  Any  Bishop  elected  and  consecrated  under  this  sec- 
tion, shall  be  eligible  to  the  office  of  Diocesan  Bishop  in  any 
organized  Diocese  within  the  Confederate  States,  with  the 
consent  of  three-fourths  of  the  Bishops  having  seats  in  the 
House  of  Bishops,  and  of  the  Standing  Committees  of  three 
fourths  of  the  several  Dioceses,  said  consent  to  be  signified 
to  the  Senior  Bishop  and  announced  by  him  ;  or,  if  the 
Missionary  Bishop  be  elected  Diocesan  within  three  months 
preceding  the  meeting  of  the  General  Council,  with  the 
consent  of  three-fourths  of  both  orders  present  in  the  House* 
of  Deputies,  and  of  three-fourths  of  the  Bishops  present  in- 
the  House  of  Bishops.  And  whenever  a  Diocese  shall  have 


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been  organized  within  the  jurisdiction  of  such  Missionary  canon m.  , 
Bishop,  if  he  shall  he  chosen  Bishop  of  such  Diocese,  he  v — v — ' 
may  accept  the  office,  and  shall  thereby  vacate  his  mission- 
ary appointment :  Provided,  That  he  continue  to  discharge 
the  duties  of  Missionary  Bishop  within  the  residue  of  his 
original  jurisdiction,  if  there  be  such  residue,  until  the 
meeting  of  the  next  General  Council. 

[5.]  Every  such  Bishop  may  yearly  appoint  two  Presby- 
ters, and  two  Laymen  communicants  of  this  Church,  resi-  ^  May  appoint 
dent  within  his  missionary  jurisdiction,  to  perform  the  mme.s 
duties  of  a  Standing  Committee  for  such  jurisdiction  : 
Provided,  That  no  Standing  Committee  constituted  under 
this  Section  shall  have  power  to  give  or  refuse  assent  to  the 
consecration  of  a  Bishop. 

[6.]  Every  such  Bishop  shall  report  to  each  General  Coun- 
cil his'official  acts,  and  the  state  and  eondition.of  the  Church  enucoun'n.00"' 
in  said  States  and  Territories  of  the  Confederate  States. 

§  10.  [1.]   The  House  of  Deputies  may,  from  time  to 
time,  on  nomination  by  the  House  of  Bishops,  elect  a  suit- 
able person  to   be  a  Bishop  of  this  Church,  to  exercise   :   r™«m  mw 
Episcopal    functions   in    any    missionaiy    station    of   this    ' 
Church  out  of  the  Territory  of  the  Confederate   States,  ' 
which  the  House  of  Bishops,  with  the  concurrence  of  the 
House  of  Deputies,   may  have  designated.     The  evidence 
of  such  election  sjhall  be  a  certificate,  to  be  subscribed  by  a 
constitutional  majority  of  said  House  of  Deputies,  express-   Evidence  of  eiec- 
ing  their  assent  to  the  said  nomination,  which  certificate    °°' 
shall  be  produced  to  the  House  of  Bishops :    and  if  the 
House  of  Bishops  shall  consent  to  the  consecration,  they 
may  take  order  for  that  purpose. 

^  [2.]  Any  Bishop  elected  and  consecrated  under  this  Sec- 
tion, or  any  foreign  Missionary  Bishop  heretolore  conse- 
crated to  exercise  Episcopal  functions  in  any  place  or  country  Jurisdiction. 
which  may  have  been  thus  designated,  shall  have  no  juris- 
diction, except  in  the  place  or  country  for  which  he  has 
been  elected  and  consecrated.  He  shall  be  entitled  to  a 
seat,  but  not  a  vote,  in  the  House  of  Bishops.  He  shall 
not  become  a  Diocesan  Bishop  in  any  organized  Diocese 
within  the  Confederate  States,  unless  with  ihe  consent  of 
three-fourths  of  all  the  Bishops  entitled  to  seats  in  the 
House  of  Bishops,  and  also  with  the  consent  of  the  Stand- 
ing Committees  of  three-fourths  of  the  Dioceses. 

[3.]  Any  Bishop  elected  and  consecrated  under  this  Sec- 
tion, or  any  Foreign  Missionary  Bishop  heretofore  conse'-    May  ohms. 
crated,  may  ordain  as  Deacons  or  Presbyters,   to  officiate 


30  TITLE  II.— GENERAL  REGULATIONS  OF  MINISTER.-. 

.   canon  in.     within  the  limits  of  his  Mission,  any  persons  of  the  age 
,s"~~v     '     required  by  the  Canons  of  this  Church,  who  shall  exhibit  to 

onu^,0,,I,islsl  ,r  him  tnc  testimonials  required  by  Canons  A',  and  VII.  of 
Title  I.,  signed  by  not  less  than  two  of  the  ordained  Mission- 
aries of  this  Church  who  may  be  subject  to  his  charge: 
Provided,  „  nevertheless,  That  if  there  be  only  one  ordained 
Missionary  attached  to  the  Mission,  and  capable  of  acting 
at  the  time,  the  signature  of  a  Presbyter,  under  the  jurisdic- 
tion of  any  Bishop  in  communion  with  this  Church,  in  good 
standing,  may  be  admitted  to  supply  the  deficiency. 
dispensation.  [4.]  Any  Foreign  Missionary  Bishop  consecrated  under 
this  Section,  or  heretofore  consecrated,  may,  by  and  with 
the  advice  of  two  Presbyters,  one  of  whom,  if  necessity  re- 
quire, shall  be  a  Presbyter  in  good  standing  under  the  juris- 
diction of  any  Bishop  in  communion  with  this  Church,  dis- 
pense with  those  studies  required  from  a  candidate* for  Or- 
riovisos.  ders  by  the  Canons  of  this  Church  :  Provided,  No  person 
shall  be  ordained  Priest  by  him,  who  has  not  passed  a  satis- 
factory examination,  in  the  presence  of  two  Presbyters,  as 
to  his  theological  learning  and  aptitude  to  teach:  And  j)ro- 
vided,  j arther,  That  no  person  shall  be  ordained  Deacon  by 
him,  until  he  shall  have  been  a  candidate  for  at  least  one 
ons"  year.  Nor  shall  any  Deacon  or  Priest,  who  shall  have  been 
ordained  under  this  Section,  be  allowed  to  hold  any  cure, 
or  officiate  in  the  Church  in  these  Confederate  States,  until 
he  shall  have  complied  with  existing  Canons,  relating  to 
the  learning  of  persons  to  be  ordained. 

jurisdiction  over      [q!  Anv  Foreign  Missionarv  Bishop  elected  and  conse- 

resident  Clergy-         L      J  J  O  «/  ■*■»»■••  -r»>    1 

wen.  crated  under  this  Section,  or  any  ±  oreign  Missionary  Bishop 

heretofore  consecrated,  shall  have  jurisdiction  and  govern- 
ment according  to  the  Canons  of  this  Church,  over  all 
Missionaries  or  Clergymen  of  this  Church,  resident  in  the 
district  or  country  for  which  he  may  have  been  consecrated. 

Starting  com-  [qi  Every  such  Bishop  may  yearly  appoint  not  less  than 
two,  nor  more  than  live  Presbyters,  resident  within  his 
missionary  jurisdiction,  to  act  as  a  Standing  Committee, 
upon  all  questions  pertaining  to  the  interests  thereof;  and, 
in  case  of  the  absence  of  the  Bishop  from  his  jurisdiction, 
or  of  a  vacancy  in  the  Episcopate,  said  Standing  Commit- 
tee shall  be  the  Ecclesiastical  Authority  of  such  missionary 
jurisdiction. 

Kepon t..Gene-  [7.]  Every  Bishop  elected  and  consecrated  under  this 
Section,  or  Foreign  Missionary  Bishop  heretofore  consecra- 
ted, shall  report  to  each  General  Council  his  official  acts^ 
and  the  state  of  the  Mission  under  his  supervision. 


niittee. 


Tal  Council. 


TITLE  II. -GENERAL  REGULATIONS  OF  MINISTERS.  31 

§  11.  [1.]  A  Diocese  without  a  Bishop,  or  of  which  the     canwiii. 
Bishop  is  for  the  time  under  a  disability  by  reason  of  a    ^"^^iLot 
judicial  sentence,  may,  by  its  Council,  be  placed  under  the  a^Bishopjiiaced 
full  Episcopal  charge  and  authority  of  the  Bishop  of  another  another BisKop. 
Diocese,  or  of  a  'Missionary  Bishop,  who  shall  by  that  act 
be  authorized  to  perform  all  the  duties  and  offices  of  the 
Bishop  of  the  Diocese  so  vacant  or  having  the  Bishop  disa- 
bled ;    until,  in  the  case  of  a  vacant  Diocese,  a  Bishop  be 
duly  elected  and  consecrated  for  the  same  ;  and,  in  the  case 
of  a  Diocese  whose  Bishop  is  disqualified  as  aforesaid,  until 
the  disqualification  be  removed ;  or  until,  in  cither  case,  the 
said  act  of  the  Council  be  revoked. 

[2.]  !No  Diocese  thus  placed  under  the  full  charge  and  ^^'late^S 
authority  of  the  Bishop  of  another  Diocese,  or  a  Missionary  J^ge!8    such 
Bishop,  shall  invite  a  second  Bishop  to  perform  any  Episco- 
pal duty,  or  exercise  authority,  till  its  connection  with  the 
first  Bishop  has  expired  or  is  revoked. 

§  12.  [1.]  If,  during  the  session  of  the  General  Council,  Episcopal  resist- 
or within  six  calendar  months  before  the  meeting  of  any 
such  Council,  a  Bishop  shall  desire  to  resign  his  jurisdiction, 
he  shall  make  known  in  writing  to  the  House  of  Bishops 
such  his  desire,  together  with  the  reasons  moving  him 
thereto;  whereupon  the  House  of  Bishops  may  investigate  investigation 
the  whole  case  of  the  proposed  resignation,  including  not 
only  the  facts  and  reasons  that  may  be  set  forth  in  the  appli- 
cation for  the  proposed  resignation,  but  any  other  facts  and 
circumstances  bearing  upon  it,  so  that  the  whole  subject  of 
the  propriety  or  necessity  of  such  resignation  may  be  placed 
fully  before  the  House  of  Bishops. 

r2.]  An  investigation  having  thus  been  made,  the  House     House  of  Bisu- 
„LT  ■,.-'■.  -i-i  i    •        i"      •  -ii  °iis  "*  accept oi 

of  Bishops  may  decide  on  the  application  ;  and,  by  the  vote  rcflwe- 

pi  a  majority  of  those  present,  accept  or  refuse  to  accept 

such  resignation  ;  and,  in  all  cases  of  a  proposed  resignation, 

the  Bishops  shall  cause  their  proceedings  to  be  recorded  on 

their  journal ;  and,   in  case  of  acceptance,  the  resignation 

shall  be  complete  when  thus  recorded  ;  and  notice  thereof 

shall  be  given  to  the  House  of  Deputies. 

[3.]  In  case  a  Bishop*  should  desire  to  resign  at  any  period  ri*tefCtfGe£ 

not  within  six  calendar  months  before  the  meeting  of  a  «rai council. 

General  Council,  he  shall  make  known  to  the  .senior  Bishop 

such  his  desire,  with  the  reasons  moving  him  thereunto  ; 

whereupon  the  senior  Bishop  shall  communicate,  without 

delay,  a  copy  of  the  same  to  every  Bishop  of  this  Church 

having  Ecclesiastical  jurisdiction  within  the   Confederate 

States  ;  and  also  to  the  Standing  Committee  of  the  Diocese 


32  TITLE  II.— GENERAL  REGULATIONS  OF  MINISTERS. 

canon  in.      to  which  the  Bishop  desiring  to  resign  may  belong  ;  and, 

v*"pv~~"/  at  the  same  time;  summon  said  Bishops  to  meet  him  in  per- 
son, at  a  place  to  be  by  him  designated,  and  at  a  time  not 
less  than  three  calendar  months  from  the  date  of  his  sum- 
mons ;  and,  should  a  number  not  less  than  a  majority  of  all 
the  said  Bishops  meet  at  the  time  aud  place  designated, 
they  shall  then  have  all  the  powers  given  by  the  previous 
clauses  of  this  Section  to  the  House  of  Bishops;  and,  should 
a  number  less  than  a  majority  assemble,  they  shall  have 
power  to  adjourn  from  time  to  time,  until  they  can  secure 
the  attendance  of  a  majority  of  all  the  said  Bishops.  Should 
a  proposed  resignation  of  a  Bishop  be  accepted  at  any  meet- 
ing of  the  Bishops  for  that  purpose  held  during  a  recess, 
then  the  senior  Bishop  present  shall  pronounce  such  resig- 

No8«.  nation  complete,  and  communicate  the  same  to  the  Eccle- 
siastical Authority  of  each  Diocese,  who  shall  cause  the 
same  to  be  communicated  to  the  several  Clergymen  in  charge 
of  Congregations  therein.  And  it  shall  be  the  further  duty 
of  the  senior  Bishop  to  cause  sucji  resignation  to  be  for- 

rvC:oriI         mally  recorded  on  the  journal  of  the  House  of  Bishops  that 
may  meet  in  General  Council  next  thereafter.  If  the  Bishop 
if  senior  Bbhop.  desirous  of  resigning  should  be  the  senior  Bishop,  then  all 
the  duties  directed  in  this  Section  to  be  performed  by  the  se- 
nior Bishop  shall  devolve  upon  the  Bishop  next  in  seniority. 
Resigned  Ksh-      [4.]  jSTo  Bishop  whose  resignation  of  the  Episcopal  juris- 
!Sofcfeblc  t0  no  diction  of  a  Diocese  has  been  consummated  pursuant  to 
this  Section,  shpll  be  eligible  to  any  Diocese  now  in  union, 
or  which  may  hereafter  be  admitted  into  union,  with  this 
Church  ;  but  he  may  perform  Episcopal  acts  at  the  request 
0       of  any  Bishop  of  this  Church   within  tho  limits  of  his 
Diocese. 
Bishops  without      [5.]  A  Bishop,  who  ceases  to  have  charge,  of  a  Diocese,, 
Ctenlreicouncii!0  shall  still  be  subject  in  all  matters  to  the  Canons  and  au- 
thority of  the  General  Council. 
Rofenation  of      [6.]  In  case  a  suspended  Bishop  of  this   Church  should 
»uspen5ed Bishop.  desire  to  resign  at  any  period   not   within  six  calendar 
months  before  the  meeting  of  a  General  Council,  he  shall 
make  known  by  letter  to  the  senror  Bishop  such  desire ; 
whereupon  the  senior  Bishop  shall  communicate  a  copy  of 
the  same  to  each  Bishop  of  this  Church  having  jurisdiction 
within  the  Confederate  States ;  and,  in  case  a  majority  of 
such  Bishops  shall  return  to  the  senior  Bishop  their  written 
assent  to  such  resignation,  the  same  shall  be  deemed  valid 

Notice,         and.final ;  and  written  information  of  the  said  resignation 
shall  at  once  be  communicated  by  the  senior  Bishop  to  the 


TITLE  II.— GENERAL  REGULATIONS  OF  MINISTERS.  33 

Bishop  and  Diocese  concerned,  and  to  each  Bishop  of  this     canon  m. 
Church.     And  it  shall  be  the  farther  duty  of  the  senior     ^v     ' 
Bishop  to  cause  such  resignation  to  be  formally  recorded      Record 
on  the  journal  of  the  House  of  Bishops  that  may  meet  in 
General  Council  next  thereafter. 


CANON  IV. 

OF  A  LIST  OF  THE  MINISTERS  OF  THIS  CHURCH. 

§  1.  The  Secretary  of  the  House  of  Deputies  shall  keep  secretary  of 
a  register  of  all  the  Clergy  of  this  Church,  whose  names tuX  keep  a  $*- 
shall  be  delivered  to  him  in  the  following  manner,  that  is 
to  say  :  The  Ecclesiastical  Authority  of  this  Church,  in  each 
Diocese,,  shall,  at  the  time  of  each  General  Council,  deliver 
to  the  said  Secretary  a  list  of  the  names  of  all  the  Minis- 
ters of  this  Church  in  their  proper  Dioceses,  annexing  the 
names  of  their  respective  cures,  or  of  their  stations  in  any 
Colleges  or  other  Seminaries  of  Learning  ;  or,  in  regard  to 
those  who  have  not  any  cures  or  other  stations,  their  places 
of  residence  only ;  and  the  said  list  shall,  from  time  to 
time,  be  published  in  the  journals  of  the  General  Council. 

§  2.  The  Ecclesiastical  Authority  4 of  each  Diocese  shall,       Admission  «r 
during  the  intervals  between  the'  meetings  of  the  General  -notifled.  i 
Council,  take  such  means  of  making  known  the  admission 
of  Ministers  among  them,  as  shall  tend  to  prevent  ignorant 
and  unwary  people  from  being  imposed  on  by  persons  pre- 
tending to  be  authorized  Ministers  of  this  Church. 


CANON  V. 

OF  fllE  MODE  OF  SECURING  AN  ACCURATE  VIEW  OF  THE 
STATE  OF  THE  CHURCH. 

§  1.  As  a  full  and  accurate  view  of  the  state  of  the   statement  m i-a- 
Church,  from  time  to  time,  is  highly  useful  and  necessary, 
it  is  hereby  ordered  that  every  Minister  of  this  Church,  or 
if  the  Parish  be  vacant,  the  Wardens  or  Vestry,  shall  dc- 
4 


rochial  Reports. 


34  TITLE  ILt-GEKERAL  REGULATIONS  OF  MINISTERS. 

canon  v.  liver,  on  or  before  the  first  day  of  every  Diocesan  Council, 
vTfw  to  the  Bishop  of 'the  Diocese,  or  -where  there  is  no  Bishop, 
to  the  President  of  the  Council,  a  statement  of  the  number 
of  baptisms,  confirmations,  marriages  and  funerals,  and  of 
the  number  of  communicants  in  his  Parish  or  Church,  also 
the  state  and  condition  of  the  Sunday  Schools  in  his  Parish, 
also  of  the  amount  of  the  Communion  alms,  the  contribu- 
tions for  Missions,  Diocesan,  Domestic  and  Foreign,  for 
Parochial  schools,  for  Church  purposes  in  general,  and  of 
all  other  matters  that  may  throw  light  on  the  state  of  the 

setucrtrgtomtepoit  same.     And  every  Clergyman,  not  regularly  settled  in , any 

renricea.  Parish  or  Church,  shall  also  report  the  occasional  services 

he  ma}T  have  performed  ;  and,  if  he  have  performed  no 
such  services,  the  causes  or  reasons  which  have  prevented 
the  same.  And  these  reports,  or  such  parts  of  them  as  the 
Bishop  shall  think  fit,  may  be  read  in  Council,  and  shall  be 
entered  on  the  journals  thereof. 

Hahop's Address.  §  2.  At  every  annual  Diocesan  Council,  the  Bishop  shall 
deliver  an  address,  stating  the  affairs  of  the  Dioces^  since 
the  last  meeting  of  the  Council ;  the  names  of  the  Churches 
which  he  has  visited  ;  the  number  of  persons  confirmed  ; 
the  names  of  those  who  have  been  received  as  candidates 
for  Orders,  and  of  those  who  have  been  ordained,  suspen-, 
ded,  or  degraded  ;  the  changes  by  death,  removal,  or  other- 
wise, which  have  taken  place  among  the  Clergy ;  and,  in 
general,  all  matters  tending  to  throw  light  on  the  affairs  of 
the  Diocese ;  which  address  shall  be  inserted  on  the  journals. 
Putj  of  imocc-  §8.  The  Secretaries' of  the  several  Diocesan  Councils 
shall  forward  to  the  House  of  Deputies,  at  every  General 
Council,  the  journals  of  the  different  Diocesan  Councils, 
Episcopal  Charges,  Addresses  and  Pastoral  Letters  since 
the  last  General  Council,  together  with  such  other  papers 
us  may  tend  to  throw  light  on  the  state  of  the  Church  in 
committee  on  in  each  Diocese.     A  Committee  shall  then  be  appointed  to 

<:i.urciKL  (  draw  up  a  view  of  the  state  of  the  Church,  and  to  make 
report  to  the  House  of  Deputies;  which  report,  when  agreed 
to  by  the  said  House,  shall  be  sent  to  the  House  of  Bishops, 
with  a  request  that  they  will  prepare  and  publish  a  Pastoral 
pastomi  Letter.  Letter  to  the  members  of  the  Church.  When  any  such 
letter  is  published,  every  Clergyman  having  a  Pastoral 
charge  shall  read  it  to  his  Congregation  on  some  occasion 
of  public  worship, 
condensed  Re-      §  4.  The  Bishop  and  Standing  Committee  of  the  Church 

Etocwe?"1  La "  in  every  Diocese,  or,  if  there  be  no  Bishop,  the  Standing 
Committee  only,  shall,  prepare,  previously  to  the  meeting  of 


TITLE  II  — GENERAL  REGULATIONS  OF  MINISTERS.  35 

I 

every  General  Council,  a  condensed  report,  and  a  tabular  canon  v. 
view  of  the  state  of  the  Church  in  their  Diocese,  com-  ' — * — ' 
prising  therein  a  summary  of  the  statistics  from  the  paro- 
chial reports,  and  from  the  Bishop's  addresses,  specifying 
the  capital  and  proceeds  of  the  Episcopal  fund,  aud  of  all 
benevolent  and  missionary  associations  of  Churchmen 
within  the  Diocese,  for  the  purpose  of  aiding  the  Commit- 
tee on  the  state  of  the  Church,  appointed  by  the  House  of 
Deputies,  in  drafting  their  reports. 


can  ox  VI. 

OF  THE  MODE   OF  PUBLISHING   AUTHORIZED  EDITION'S  OF 
THE  STANDARD  BIBLE  OF  THIS  CHURCH. 

The  Ecclesiastical  Authority  in   each  Diocese  of  this    rawona  ofjta 
Church  shall  appoint,  from  time  to  time,   some  suitable  rected  br  the 

11      ,  ,  i      11    ■  v.-  Standard. 

person  or  persons,  to  compare  and  correct  all  new  editions 
of  the  Bible  by  the  standard  edition  agreed  upon  by  the 
General  Council,  and  a  certificate  of  their  having  been  so 
compared  and  corrected  shall  be  published  with  said  book. 


CANOX  VII. 

OF  PUBLISHING  EDITIONS  OF  THE  I'.OOK  of  COMMON 
PRAYER. 

The  Ecclesiastical  Authoritv  of  this  Church,  in  each  (Wet  jamma 
Diocese,  shall  appoint  one  or  more  Presbyters  of  the  Dio-  »««*. 
cese,  who  shall  compare  and  correct  every  new  edition  of 
the  Book  of  Common  Prayer,  the  Articles,  Offices,  Metro 
j  Psalms  and  Hymns,  by  a  copy  of  the  standard  edition;  and 
a  certificate,  specifying  the  name  of  the  PifWishing  House 
and  the  date  of  said  edition,  and  that  it  has  been  so  com- 
pared and  corrected,  shall  be  published  with  the  same.  And 
in  case  any  edition  shall  be  published  without  such  correc- 
tion, it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  said  Ecclesiafstical  Author- 
ity to  give  public  notice  that  such  edition  is  not  authorized 
by  the  Church. 


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TITLE  II.— GENERAL  REGULATIONS  OF  MINISTERS. 


Canon  VIII. 


Psr«ch!al  instruc 
tion. 


CANON  vni. 

OF  PAROCHIAL  INSTRUCTION. 

The  Ministers  of  this  Church  who  have  charge  of  par- 
ishes or  cures,  shall  not  only  be  diligent  in  instructing  the 
children  in  the  Catechism,  but  shall,  also,  by  stated  cate- 
chetical lectures  and  instruction,  be  diligent  in  informing 
the  youth  and  others  in  the  Doctrine,  Constitution  and 
Liturgy  of  the  Church. 


TITLE   III. 
OF  DISCIPLINE. 


PunlshnU*  of- 


CANON  I. 

OF  AMENABILITY  AND  OFFENCES  FOR  WHICH  A  MINISTER 
MAY  BE  TRIED  AND  PUNISHED. 

§  1.  Every  Minister  shall  be  amenable  for  offences  com-    ToTvhom  Min. 
mitted  by  him  to  the  Ecclesiastical  Authority  of  the  Diocese  18tersamena  lc' 
in  which  he  is  canonically  resident  at  the  time  of  the  charge. 

§  2.  Every  Minister  shall  be  liable  to  presentment  and 
trial,  for  any  crime  or  immorality,  for  disorderly  conduct,  fcnces- 
for  drunkenness,  for  profane  swearing,  for  frequenting  places 
liable  to  be  abused  to  licentiousnesness,  and  for  violation  of 
the  Constitution  or  Canons  of  this  Church,  or  of  the  Diocese 
to  which  he  belongs  ;  and,  on  being  found  guilty,  he  shall 
be  admonished,  suspended,  or  degraded,  according  to  the 
Canons  of  the  Diocese  in  which  the  trial  takes  place. 

§  3.  A  Clergyman  who  presents  a  person  to  the  Bishop  for    LUbUitT  of 
Holy  Orders,  as  specified  in  the  office  for  Ordination,  with-  S?trfUgmen  pre* 
out  having  good  grounds  to  believe  that  the  requisitions  of 
the   Canons  have  been  complied  with,  shall  be  liable  to 
Ecclesiastical  censure. 

§  4.  If  a  Minister  of  this  Church  shall  be  accused,  by  proceed^  on 
public  rumour,  of  discontinuing  all  exercise  of  the  minisie-  pubUc  rumc',"'• 
rial  office  without  lawful  cause,  or  of  living  in  the  habitual 
disuse  of  public  worship  or  of  the  Holy  Eucharist,  accord- 
ing to  the  offices  of  this  Church,  or  of  being  guilty  of  scan- 
dalous, immoral  or  disorderly  conduct,  or  of  violating  the 
Canons,  or  preaching  or  inculcating  heretical  doctrine,  it 
shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Bishop,  or,  if  there  be  no  Bishop, 
of  the  Clerical  members  of  the  Standing  Committee,  to  see 
that  an  inquiry  be  instituted  as  to  the  truth  of  such  public 


38  TITLE  III.— OF  IMS* "I  I'M  ST.. 

canon l  rumour.  Aud  in  case  of  the  individual  being  proceeded 
""""""* — '  against  and  convicted  according  to  such  rules  or  process  as 
may  be  provided  by  the  Councils  of  the  respective  Dioceses, 
he  shall  be  admonished,  suspended  or  degraded,  as  the  nature 
of  the  case  may  require,  in  conformity  with  their  respective 
Constitutions  and  Canons. 


CAXOX  II. 

TRIAL  OF  PRESBYTERS  AJSTD  DEACONS  [JNDEB  MISSIONARY 

JURISDICTION. 

§  1.  The  jurisdiction  of  this  Church  extending  in  right, 
presentment,  though  not  always  in  form,  to  all  persons  belonging  to  it 
within  the  Confederate  States  aud  Territories,  it  is  hereby 
enacted,  that  each  Missionary  Bishop  shall  have  jurisdiction 
over  the  clergy  in  the  district  assigned  him,  and  may,  in 
case  a  presentment  and  trial  of  a  clergyman  become  proper, 
request  the  action  of  any  Presbyters  and  Standing  Com- 
mittee, in  any  Diocese  suilicicntly  near,  and  the  present- 
ment and  trial  shall  be  according  to  the  Constitution  aud 
Canons  of  said  Diocese.  Or,  if  there  be  .a  Standing  Com- 
mittee appointed  by  the  Missionary  Bishop,  the  clerical 
members  thereof  may  make  presentment,  and  the  trial 
shall  take  place  according  to  the  Constitution  aud  Canons 
of  any  Diocese  of  this  Church  which  may  have  been 
selected  at  the  time  of  the  appointment  of  such  Standing 
Committee  :  Provided,  That  the  Court  shall  be  composed  of 
at  least  three  Presbyters,  excluding  the  members  of  the 
Standing  Committee  and  the  accused. 

§  2.  If  any  Minister  of  this  Church,  acting  under  a  For- 
Prtaig.  eign  Missionary  appointment,  and  within  the  jurisdiction 
of  a  Foreign  Missionary  Bishop  of  this  Church,  shall  com- 
mit any  offence  for  which  Ministers  may  be  tried  and  pun- 
ished, or  shall  refuse  obedience  to  the  lawful  authority 
of  the  Missionary  Bishop,  such  Clergyman  shall  be  pro- 
ceeded against  according  to  the  Constitution  aud  Canons  of 
any  Diocese  in  this  Church,  which  may  have  been  selected 
at  the  tin\e  of  the  appointment  of  the  Standing  Committee 
of  such  missionary  jurisdiction  :  Provided,  That  a  present- 
ment shall  first  be  made  by  the  members  of  said  Standing 


TITLE  III.— OF  DISCIPLINE.  gcj, 

Committee,  or,  if  the  accused  party  be  a  member  of  the  cammii. 
Standing  Committee,  by  the  other  member  or  •members  v — * — ' 
thereof. 

§  3.  The  Court  for  the  trial  of  such  Minister  shall  consist  The  court, 
of  five  Presbyters,  excluding  the  members  of  the  Standing 
Committee;  or,  if  there  be  not  five,  then  of  all  the  mem- 
bers of  such  missionary  jurisdiction.  If  tliere  be  more 
than  five,,  then  shall  the  Standing  Committee  select,  by  lot, 
the  five  who  shall  compose  the  Court,  which  Court  shall 
proceed  in  the  trial,  according  to  the  Canons  of  the  General 
Council  of  this  Chhurch,  so  far  as  the  same  may  be  appli- 
cable to  such  a  case  ;  and  where  no  provision  is  made  ade- 
quate to  the  exigency,  the  Court  shall  consider  and  adjudge 
the  case  according  to  the  principles  of  law  and  equity 

§  4.  The  sentence  of  the  Court  shall  be  rendered  to  the     sentence. 
Bishop  of   such    missionary  jurisdiction,   who    shall    have 
power  to  revise  and  modify  the  same,  and  the  decision  of  the 
Bishop  shall  be  final  and  conclusive. 


CANOX  III. 

OF  A  CLERGYMAN   IN  ONE  DIOCESE  OR  MISSIONARY 

DISTRICT  CHAGEABLE   WITH  MISDEMEANOR 

IN  ANOTHER. 

§1.  If  a  Clergyman  of  this.  Church,  belonging  to  any  omaioeo 
Diocese  or  Missionary  District,  shall,  in  any  other  Diocese  diomU*1 
or  Missionary  District,  conduct  himself  in  such  a  way  as  to 
be  chargeable  with  misdemeanor,  the  Ecclesiastical  Author-* 
ity  thereof  shall  give  notice  of  fhe  same  to  the  Ecclesiastical 
Authority  where  he  is  canonically  resident,  exhibiting,  with 
the  information  given,  reasonable  ground  for  presuming  its 
correctness!  If  the  Ecclesiastical  Authority,  when  thus 
•  informed,  shall  omit,  for  the  space  of  three  months,  to  pro- 
ceed against  the  offending  Clergyman,  the  Ecclesiastical 
Authority  of  the  Diocese  or  Missionary  District,  within 
which  the  alleged  offence  was  committed,  may  intetitutc 
proceedings,  and  the  decision  given  shall  be  conclusive. 

§2.  If  a  Clergyman   shall  come   temporarily  into   any    Bishop  may  a*. 
iocese,  under  the  imputation  ot   having  elsewhere  been 
guilty  of- any  crime  or  misdemeanor,  or  if  any  Clergyman, 
while   sojourning  in    any    Diocese,    shall   misbehave,   the 


40  TITLE  III.— OF  DISCIPLINE. 

canon  in.  Bishop,  upon  probable  cause,  may  admonish  such  Clergy- 
v  v  '  man,  and 'forbid  him  to  officiate  in  said  Diocese.  And  if, 
after  such  prohibition,  the  said  Clergyman  so  officiate,  the 
Ecclesiastical  Authority  shall  give  notice  to  all  the  Clergy 
and  Congregations  in  said  Diocese,  that  the  officiating  of 
the  said  Clergyman  is  prohibited;  and  like  notice  shall  be 
given  to  the  Ecclesiastical  Authority  of  the  Diocese  to 
which  the  said  Clergyman  belongs.  And  such  prohibition 
shall  continue  in  force,  until  the  Ecclesiastical  Authority  of 
the  first  named  Diocese  be  satisfied  of  the  innocence  of  the 
said  Clergyman,  or  until  he  be  acquitted  on  trial, 
case  of  cicrgy      §  3.  The  provisions  of  the  last  Section  shall  apply  to 

men   ordained  ia    ,-*■,  ■*■-..  -..         P  .  ..  -,  -r»-    i  • 

foreign  countries.  Clergymen  ordained  in  foreign  countries  by  Bishops  in 
communion  with  this  Church :  Provided,  That  in  such  case 
notice  of  the  prohibition  shall  be  given  to  the  Ecclesiastical 
Authority  under  whose  jurisdiction  the  Clergyman  shall 
appear  to  have  last  been,  and  also  to  all  the  Bishops  exer- 
cising jurisdiction  in  this  Church. 


CAXON  IV. 

Of  i;i-:xrxciATiON"  of  the  ministry. 

mere  n»  pro-       §  1 .  If  any  Minister  of  this  Church,  against  whom  there 
ins-  '"  "  is  no  Ecclesiastical  proceeding  instituted,  shall  declare,  in 

writing,  to  the  Ecclesiastical  Authority  to  which  he  belongs, 
his  renunciation  of  the  Ministry,  and  his  design  not  to 
officiate  in  future  in  any  of  the  offices  thereof,  said  Eccle- 
siastical Authority  shall  record  the  declaration  so  made. 
The  Bishop  shall  then  depolfe  him  from  the  Ministry,  and 
pronounce  and  record  in  the  presence  of  two  or  more  Cler- 
gymen, that  the  person  so  declaring  has  been  deposed  from 
the  Ministry  of  this  Church  ;  and  if  there  be  no*  Bishop  in 
such  Diocese,  the  same  sentence  may  be  pronounced  by  the 
Bishop  of  any  other  Diocese  invited  by  the  Standing  Com- 
mittee to  attend  for  that  purpose, 
suspension  of  §2.  If  the  Ecclesiastical  Authority,  to  whom  such  decla- 
ration renouncing  the  Ministry  is  made,  shall  have  reason 
to  believe  that  the  person  has  acted  unadvisedly  and  hastily, 
all  action  thereupon  may  be  forborne  for  the  space  of  not 
more  than  six  months,  during  which  time  the  person  may 
withdraw  his  application. 


u.tion. 


TITLE  III.— OF  DISCIPLINE. 

§  3.  If  tlic  Bishop  shall   haw   ground  to  s  tlie 

person  to  bo  liable  to  presentment  for  any.cauoni,cal  offence, 
he  may,  in  his  discretion,  and  with,  the  consent  of  the 
Standing  Committee,  proceed  to"' nave  the  aprplicaat  put 
iipon  his  trial,  notwithstanding  his  having  made  the  afor 
declaration  ;  and  the  same  discretion  is  allowed  to  the 
ling  Committee,1  in  case  the  Diocese  should  be  without 
a  Bishop. 

§  4.  In  the  case  of  deposition  from  the  Ministry,  as  above 
provided  for,  the  Bishop  snail  give  notice  thereof  to  the 
Ecclesiastical  Authority  of  every  Diocese  of  this  Church; 
and  if  the  i  Iergyman  be  dcpn.-v.vd  for  anything  involving 
moral  degradation,  such  notieo  shall  be  road  before  every 
congregation  of  the  Diocese  to  which  lie  belongs,  on  the 
occasion  of  public  worship  next  After  the  reception  of 
notice. 


41 


Cauon  IV. 


of  dero- 

■■■<. 


CAXOX  A'. 


OF   THE  AEAXDONMCXT    OF    THE  COMMUNIOlj   OF  THIS 
Ciirilv'Il  BY  A  PBESBJTTEK  OR  DEACON. 

§  1.  h'  any  Presbyter  or  Deacon  shall,  without  availing 
himself  of  the  provisions  of  Canon  IV.  of  this  Title,  abandon 
the  Communion  of  this  Church,  either  by  an  open  renun- 
ciation of  the  doctrine,  discipline,  and  worship  of  this 
Church,  or  by  a  formal  admission  into  any  religious  body 
not  in  communion  with  the  same,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
Standing  Committee  of  the  Diocese  to  make  certificate  of 
the  fact  to  the  Bishop  of  the  Diocese,  or,  if  there  be  no 
Bishop,  to  the  Bishop  of  an  adjacent  Diocese;  which  certi- 
ficate shall  be  recorded,  and  shall  be  taken  and  deemed  by 
the  Bishop  as  equivalent  to  a  renunciation  of  the  Ministry 
by  the  Minister  himself.  Notice  shall  then  be  given  to  the 
said  Minister,  by  the  said  Bishop  receiving  the  certificate, 
that  unless  he  shall,  within  six  months  after  being  notified, 
make  declaration  that  the  facts  alleged  in  said  certificate  are 
false,  he  will  be  deposed  from  the  Ministry  of  this  Church. 

§  2.  And  if  such  declaration  be  not  made  within  six 
months  as  aforesaid,  the  Bishop  shall  depose  said  Minister 
from  the  Ministry,  and  pronounce  and  record,  in  the  pres- 
ence of  two  or  more  Presbyters,  that  he  has  been  so  deposed. 
4* 


Abandonment 

I II  b  lilt    reu  u  li- 
gation. 


Certificate. 


Deposition. 


42  v  TITLE  III.— OF  DISCIPLINE. 

canon  v.  Provided,  nevertheless,  That  if  the  Minister  so  renouncing 

^-^v — '     shall  transmit  to   the  Bishop  receiving  the  certificate,  a 

rroviso.      retraction  of  the  acts  or  declarations  constituting  his  offence, 

the  Bishop  may,  at  his  discretion,  abstain  from  any  further 

proceedings. 


CANON  VI. 

OF  A  CLERGYMAN  ABSENTING  HIMSELF  FROM  HIS  DIOCESE. 

May  be  suspended.  When  a  Clergyman  has  been  absent  from  the  Diocese  to 
which  he  belongs,  during  two  years,  without  reasons  satis- 
factory to  the  Bishop  thereof,  he  shall  be  required  by  the 
Bishop  to  declare  the  cause  or  causes  thereof  in  writing; 
and  if  he  refuse  to  give  his  reasons,  or  if  they  be  deemed 
insufficient  by  the  Bishop,  the  Bishop,  after  due  notification 
of  such  insufficiency,  may,  with  the  advice  and  consent  of 
the  Clerical  Members  of  the  Standing  Committee,  suspend 
how  long,  him  from  the  Ministry;  which  suspension  shall  continue 
until  he  shall  give,  in  writing,  sufficient  reasons  for  his 
absence,  or  until  he  shall  renew  his  residence  in  his  Diocese, 
or  until  he  shall  renounce  the  Ministry  according  to  Canon 
IV.  of  this  Title.     In  the  case  of  such  suspension  as  the 

Notice  to  be  given  above  provided  for,  the  Bishop  shall  give  notice  thereof 
to  the  Ecclesiastical  Authority  of  every  Diocese  of  this 
Church. 


CANON  VII. 

OF  THE    ABANDONMENT   OF   THE   COMMUNION   OF  THE 
CHURCH  BY  A  BISHOP. 

Abandonment  If  any  Bishop  abandon  the  Communion  of  this  Church, 
Spunl0°'y  either  by  openly  renouncing  its  doctrine,  discipline  and 
worship,  or  by  formally  uniting  himself  with  any  religious 
body  not  in  communion  with  the  same,  the  Standing  Com- 
mittee of  the  Diocese  shall  make  certificate  of  the  fact  to 
the  Senior  Bishop,  which  certificate  shall  be  recorded,  and 
shall  be  taken  and  deemed  as  equivalent  to  a  renunciation 
of  the  Ministry  by  the  Bishop  himself. 


TITLE  [II.— OF  DISCIPLINE.  & 

Notice  shall  then  be  given  to  said  Bishop  by  the  Senior     canon  vn. 
Bishop  receiving  the  certificate,  that  unless  he  shall,  within  „  ^"7Y~ "^ 
six  months  after  being  notified,  make  declaration  that  the 
facts  alleged  in  said  certificate  are  false,  he  will  be  deposed 
from  the  Ministry  of  this  Church. 

,  ,And  if  such  declaration  be  not  made  within  six  months  Deposition. 
as  aforesaid,  the  Seni6r.  Bishop,. with  the  consent  of  the 
majority  of  the  Bishops  entitled  to  seats  in  the  House  of 
Bishops,  shall  depose  from  the  Ministry  the  Bishop  so  cer- 
tified as  abandoning,  and  shall  pronounce  and  record,  in 
the  presence  of  two  or  more  Bishops,  that  he  has  been  so 
deposed. 


CANON  VIII. 
OF  THE  TRIAL  OF  A  BISLIOF. 

§  1.  Any  Bishop  of  this  Church  may  be  presented  for  0maycbo0trriTdich 
trial  on  charges  for  the  following  offences,  viz  :  (1.)  Crime 
or  immorality.  (2.)  Holding  and  teaching  publicly,  or  pri- 
vately and  advisedly,  any  doctrine  contrary  to  that  held  by 
the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  in  the  Confederate  States. 
(3.)  Violation  of  the  Constitution  or  Canons  of  the  General 
Council.  (4.)  Violation  of  the  Constitution  or  Canons  of 
the  Diocese  to  which  he  belongs.  (5.)  Any  act  which 
involves  a  breach  of  his  Ordination  or  Consecration  vows,      charges  in  -a-rums. 

§  2.  [1.]  The  proceedings  shall  commence  by  charges  in 
writing ;  and,  except  when  the  charge  is  holding  and  teach- 
ing doctrine  contrary  to  that  held  by  this  Church,  shall  be 
signed  by  either 

Five  male  Communicants  of  this  Church,  in  good  stand- 
ing, belonging  to  the  Diocese  of  the  accused,  of  whom  two 
at  least  must  be  Presbyters ;  or, 

By  seven  male  Communicants  of  this  Church,  in  good 
standing,  of  whom  two  at  least  shall  be  Presbyters,  and  three 
of  which  seven  shall  belong  to  the  Diocese  of  the  accused. 

[2.]  Whenever  a  Bishop  o£  this  Church  shall  have  reason  mo^tioa  oa  ra- 
to  believe  that  there  are  in  circulation  rumours,  reports,  or 
charges  affecting  his  moral  or  religious  character,  he  may, 
if  he  please,  acting  in  conformity  with  the  written  advice  and 
consent  of  any  two  of  his  brother  Bishops  whom  he  may 
select,  demand  of  the  Presiding  Bishop  of  the  House  of 
Bishops,  or  if  he  be  the  Bishop  affected  by  such  rumours, 


4t.  '  TITLE  III.— OF  DISCIPLINE. 

canon vin;  or  if  be  be  related  to  him  within  the  degrees  hereinafter 
s— v--/  mentioned,  then  to  the  Bishop  next  in  seniority  not  so 
related,  to  convene  a  Board  of  Inquiry  in  the  mode  herein- 
after set  forth,  to  investigate  such  rumours,  reports,  and 
charges,  and  to  proceed,  in  all  respects,  according  to  the 
provisions  of  this  Canon,  as  if  charges  had  been  formally 
made  in  either  of  the  two  modes  first  mentioned  in  this 
section.  •  • 

Lay  Advocate.  |"o.]  "Whenever  charges  are  formally  made  in  either  of 
the  modes  first  above  mentioned,  the  accusers  may,  if  they 
choose,  select  a  Lay  Communicant  of  this  Church,  of  the 
profession  oi  the  law,  to  act  as  their  adviser,  advocate  and 
agent,  in  preparing  the  accusation,  proofs,  etc.,  until  such 
time  as  a  Board  of  Inquiry  is  convened  in  such  manner  as 
is  hereinafter  provided  for ;  or  they  may  prepare  such 
cbargco  to  be  charges  themselves,  without  regard  to  any  particular  form  ; 

certified  ®  *^  «/    l 

and,  in  either  case,  the  grounds  of  accusation  must  be  set 
,  forth  with  reasonable  certainty  of  time,  place  and  circum- 
stance. 

^Towhom&uv-  §  3.  The  charges,  having  been  prepared  in  either  of  the 
modes  first  above  mentioned,  shall  then  })Q  delivered  to  the 
Presiding  Bishop  of  this  Church,  if  he  be  not  the  accused, 
nor  related  to  the  accused  in  any  degree  mentioned  herein- 
after in  this  Canon;  in  either  of  which  cases,  the  charges 
shall  be  delivered  to  the  next  Bishop  in  seniority  not  so 
related. 

Board  of  inquiry.  §  4.  A  Board  for  making  a  preliminary  inquiry  into 
charges  thus  preferred,  shall  be  constituted  as  follows, 
whenever  such  Board  shall  be  necessary,  viz  : 

now  constitute.  [1.]  The  Presiding  Bishop,  or  senior  Bishop,  as  the  case 
may  be,  to  whom  such  charges  are  delivered,  shall  take  the 
list  of  Deputies  to  the  last  General  Council  that  was  held 
before  such  charges  were  presented,  and  from  that  list  shall 
choose  by  lot  two  Presbyters  and  two  Laymen  from  the 
deputation  of  the  Diocese  of  the  accused,  and  two  Presby- 
ters and  two  Laymen  from  each  of  the  respective  deputa- 
tions of  the  three  Dioceses  adjoining  that  of  the  accused ; 
and  if  there  be  not  three  adjoining,  of  the  three  nearest 
thereto  ;  and  if  more  than  three  Dioceses  adjoin  that  of  the 
accused,  those  three  that  have  the  largest  number  of  cauon- 
ically-resident  Presbyters  in  them  shall  be  accounted  adjoin- 
ing, for  the  purposes  of  this  Canon  ;  and  the  sixteen  indi- 
viduals thus  selected  by  lot  shall  constitute  the  Board  of 
Inquiry,  a  majority  of  whom  shall  form  a  quorum  for  doing 
business. 


TITLE  I1L— 01?  DISCIPLINE.  45  -' 

[2.]  The  Presiding  Bishop,  or  next  in   seniority  as  the     car.cu  vm. 
case  may  be,  immediately  alter  thus  selecting  by  lot  the     v     *    y 
Board  of  Inquiry,  shall  give  notice  thereof  to  each  member  ^^ t0 Mem" 
of  said  Board,  and  direct  him  to  attend  at  a  linn'  and  place 
designated  by  him,  and   organize  the  Board  ;  and  it  shall 
be  the  duty  of  each  member  so  to  attend.     The  place  must  *■&<*  of  meeting, 
be  within  the   Diocese   of  the   accused.     The   J 'residing 
Bishop  shall,  at  the  same  time,  send  a  copy  of  the  charges  copy  of  charges, 
to   the  senior  Presbyter  of  those  thus  selected  by  lot  from 
the  four  Dioceses. 


[3.]  On  assembling,  the  Board  shall  organize  by  choosing  Boa 


Organization  of 


rtt. 


from  among  themselves  a  President  and  Secretary,  and  shall 
also  appoint  a  Church  Advocate,  who  must  be  a  Lay  Com- 
municant of  this  Church,  and  of  the  profession  of  the  law, 
and  who  thenceforward  shall,  in  all  stages  of  the  proceed- 
ings, if  a  trial  be  ordered,  represent  the  Church,  and  be  the 
party  on  the  one  hand,  while  the  accused  is  the  party  on 
the  other.  The  sittings  of  the  Board  shall  be  private;  swings  privat?. 
the  Church  Advocate  shall  not  attend  as  prosecuting 
counsel,  but  shall  be  at  ail  times  at  hand  and  in  readiness 
to  give  his  advice  in  all  questions  submitted  to  him  by  /he 
Board. 

[4.]  In  conducting  the  investigation,  the  Board  shall  hear  Duty  of  the  Board, 
the  accusations  and  such  proof  as  the  accusers  may  produce, 
and  shall  determine  whether,  upon  matters  of  law  and  of  fact, 
as  presented  to  them,  there  is  sufficient  ground  to  put  the 
accused  Bishop  upon  his  trial  ;  and  in  such  investigation, 
as  well  as  in  all  cases  of  trial  by  an  Ecclesiastical  Court  now 
authorized,  or  hereafter  to  be  authorized,  by  the  Constitu- 
tion or  Canons  of  the  General  Council,  the  laws  of  the  State 
in  which  such  investigation  or  trial  is  had,  so  far  as  they 
relate  to  the  law  of  evidence,  shall  be  adopted  and  taken  as  Law  or  evidence, 
the  rules  by  which  the  said  Board  or  Court  shall  be  gov- 
erned. If  a  majority  of  the  Board  present  on  such  investi- 
gation shall  be  of  opinion  that  there  are  sufficient  grounds 
to  put  the  accused  Bishop  upon  his  trial,  the}7  shall  direct 
the  Church  Advocate  to  prepare  a  presentment,  to  be  signed  resentment. 
by  such  of  the  Board  as  agree  thereto;  and  to  that  end, 
shall  place  in  his  hands  all  the  charges,  together  with  the 
testimony  that  has  been  laid  before  the  Board. 

[5.]  The  Board  shall  then  direct  the  Church  Advocate  to  ^  to  whom  to  be 
transmit  to  the  Bishop  from  whom  they  received  the  charges, 
the  presentment  thus  signed  ;  and  shall  cause  him  also,  with- 
out delay,  to  send  to  the  accused  Bishop  a  copy  of  the  same, 
certified  by  the  Church  Advocate  to  be  correct. 


sent. 


46  TITLE  III.— OF  DISCIPLINE. 

canon  via.        [G.]  If  a  majority  of  the  Board  present  shall  be  of  opinion 

v — v — '     that  there  is  not  sufficient  ground  to  put  the  accused  Bishop 

upon  his  trial,  in  such  case,  the  charges,  together  with  a 

^Refusal  to  pro-  certificate  of  the  President  of  the  Board  of  its  refusal  to 
make  a  presentment,  shall  be  sent  to  the  Secretary  of  the 
House  of  Bishops,  to  be  deposited  among  the  archives  of 

vrienrtmentfuUirc  that  House.     Aud  no  proceedings  shall  thereafter  be  had  by 

Except^,.     wa7  °f  presentment   on  such    charges,  except  upon   the 

affidavit  of  a  respectable  Communicant  of  the  Church,  of 

the  discovery  of  new  testimony  as  to  the  facts  charged,  and 

setting  forth  what  such  testimony  is. 

Limitation  of  time.  [?•]  No  presentment  shall  be  found  in  any  ca^e,  unless 
the  alleged  offence  shall  have  been  committed  within  five 
years  next  before  the  day  on  which  the  charges  were  deliv- 
ered to  the  Presiding  or  senior  Bishop.  But  if  the  accused 
conviction  in  a  shall  have  been  convicted  of  the  alleged  offence  in  a  State 

statecourt.  court,  notwithstanding  five  years  may  have  elapsed  since  its 
commission,  a  presentment  may  be  founded  on  charges 
delivered  to  the  Presiding  or  senior  Bishop  at  any  time 
within  one  year  after  such  conviction. 

Notice  to  accuswi      ^5    n  n  When  a  presentment   has   been  made  by  the 

on  presentment.  SWT-"    1       J  .  I  .  .        _,.    .  •'_ 

Board  of  Inquiry,  or  a  majority  thereof,  to  the  Bishop  from 
whom  they  received  the  charges,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  such 
Bishop  forthwith  to  give  to  the  accused  written  notice  to 
attend,  at  someplace  hot  more  than  one  hundred  miles  from 
the  place  of  residence  of  the  accused  Bishop,  and  at  some 
time  not  less  than  twenty  days  after  the  time  of  serving  such 
notice,  either  personally,  or  by  some  agent  authorized  by 
him  in  writing  to  act  for  him  in  the  premises,  for  the  purpose 
of  selecting  the  Bishops  who  shall  form  the  Court  for  the 
And  to  church  trial  of  the  said  accused  Bishop  upon  the  said  presentment. 
He  shall  also  give  notice  to  the  Church  Advocate  of  the 
■0%,.  time  and  place  appointed  for  such  selection. 

^Formation  of  j-o.]  At  the  time  and  place  appointed  in  the  notices,  the 
Bishop  who  has  given  the  notices  shall  attend;  and,  in  the 
presence  of  the  accused  Bishop,  or  of  his  agent  authorized 
as  aforesaid,  and  also  in  the  presence  of  the  Church  Advo- 
cate, or  of  such  person  or  persons  as  may  attend  in  his 
behalf,  or,  if  no  person  shall  attend  on  behalf  of  one  or 
,  both,  of  two  Presbyters  named  by  himself,  the  said 
Bishop  shall  cause  to.be  placed  in  a  vessel  the  names  of  all 
the  Bishops  of  this  Church  entitled  to  seats  in  the  House 
of  Bishops,  then  being  within  the  territory  of  the  Conied- 
erate  States,  except  the  accused  and  those  Bishops  who  may 
be  related  to  him  either  bv  consanguinity  or  affinity,  in  the 


Court. 


TITLE  III.- OF  DISCIPLINE.  47 

direct  ascending  or  descending  line,  or  as  brother,  uncle,  or    canon  wa 

nephew.     He  shall  then  cause  seven  of  the  said  names  to  Stv^TCd^wD 

be  drawn.     The  names  so  drawn  shall  be  entered  upon  a' 

list  as  they  are  drawn,  and  the  accused  or  his  agent  may 

strike  off  the  list  one  name,  and  the  said  Church  Advocate 

or  his  agent  another  name,  and  so  as  to  reduce  the  number 

to  five.     If  it  shall  happen  that  either  party  shall  neglect  or 

refuse  to  strike,  then  the  Bishop  who  has  given  the  notices 

shall  reduce  the  number  to  five,  by  striking  off  so  many  of  Reduced  to  five. 

the  last  drawn  names'  as  will  reduce  the  list  to  that  number. 

The   five   Bishops  whose  names  remain,  or  a  majority  of 

them,  when  assembled,  shall  constitute  the  Court  for  the 

trial  of  the  accused  upon  the  presentment. 

[3.]  The  Court  having  been  thus  constituted,  the  Bishop  be™tfo&rt!,m" 
to  whom  the  presentment  was  made  shall  immediately  com- 
municate to  each  Bishop  who  has  thus  been  by  lot  designa- 
ted as  one  of  the  triers,  the  fact  that  he  is  a  member  of  the 
Court.     He  shall  appoint  a  time  and  place  for  the  asssem- 
bling  of  the  Court.     The  time  shall  not  be  less  than  two        n"ie- 
nor  more  than  six  calendar  months  from  the  day  on  which 
the  notice  should  arrive  at  the  most  distant  Diocese,  in  the 
ordinary  course  of  the  public  mail.     The  place  shall  be        Place. 
within  the  Diocese  or  Missionary  field  of  the  accused  Bishop, 
unless  where  the  same  may  be  of  such  difficult  access,  in 
the  judgment  of  the  Presiding  or  senior  Bishop,  that  reason- 
able convenience  may  require  the  appointment  of  another 
location.    And  the  said  senior  Bishop  shall  cause  the  Church 
Advocate  to  send  certified  copies  of  the  said  presentment   certified  copies, 
to  all  the  Bishops  who  constitute  the  Court. 

[4.]  The  Bishop  to  whom  the  presentment  lias  been  made  cu^nm0Mtoao: 
shall  also  immediately  communicate  to  the  accused  the 
names  of  the  members  of  the  Court,  and  inform  him  of  the 
time  and  place  appointed  for  its  meeting,  and  summon  him 
then  and  there  to  appear  and  answer.  He  or  any  other 
Bishop  of  this  Church  having  charge  of  a  Diocese,  shall 
have  power,  until  the  Court  assembles,  upon  the  application  Ami  to  witnesses, 
of  either  the  Church  Advocate  or  the  accused,  to  issue  a 
summons  for  witnesses. 

§  6.  The  Bishops  who  constitute  the  Court,  or  a  majority  ,,,' ,',;;;; ^  of  *•■ 
of  them,  having  assembled  according  to  the  notice  given 
them,  which  notice  it   is  hereby  made  their  duty  to  obey, 
shall  proceed  as  follows,  viz  : 

[1.]  They  shall  elect  a  President  out  of  their  own  num-  (:),.^''si,l'■,;,  and 
her,  and  appoint  a  Presb}tcr  of  the  Church  as  Clerk,  and  if 
necessary,  another  Presbyter  as  Assistant  Clerk;  and  whoi; 


48 


TITLE  [II.— OF  DISCIPL 


B 

sentmen 


cunonvin.    thus  organized   the  President  shall-  direct  the  CJl,erk  to  call 

v"*"v     '     the  names  of  the  Church  Advocate  .and  the  'accused;  and 

if  both  appear,  he  shall  then  cause  the  Clerk  to  read  the 

•■  i«-  presentment  which  was  delivered  to  the  Presiding  or  seiftior 

Bishop,  whose  duty  it  is  hereby  made  to  deliver  the  same 

to  the  Court  upon  its  organization. 

[2.]  The  accused  shall  then  be  called  u]  the  Court 

to'  say  whether  he  is  guilty  or  not  guilty  of  the  q  '&  or 

offences  charged  against  him,  and  his  plea  shall  be  duly 
recorded;  and  on  his  neglect  Or  refusal  to  plead,  the  plea, 
of  not  gi^)ly  shall  he  entered  for 'him,  and  the  trial  shall 
proceed:  Provided,  That,  for  sufficient  cause,  the  Court  may 
adjourn  from  time  to  time;  and  Proridr  \  also,  That  the 
accused  shall,  at  all  times  during  the  trial,  have  liberty  to 
be  present,  and  in  due  time  and  order  produce  his  testimony, 
and  to  make  his  defence.- 

[8.]  If  the  accused  neglect  or  refuse  to  appear  in  person, 
according  to  the  notice  served  on  him  as  aforesaid,  except 
for  some  reasonable  cause  to  be  allowed  by  the  Court,  they 
shall  proceed  to  pronounce  him  in  contumacy,  and  notify 
him  that  sentence  of  suspension  or  degradation  will  he 
pronounced  against  him  by  the  Court  at  the  expiration  of 
three  months,  unless  within  that  time  he  tender  himself 
ready,  and  accordingly  appear  to  take  his  trial  on  the  pre- 
sentment. But  if  the  accused  shall  not  tender  himself 
before  the  expiration  of  the  said  flyec  months,  sentence  of 
suspension  or  degradation  from  the  Ministry  may  be  pro- 
nounced against  him  by  the  Court. 

[4.]  The  accused  being  present,  and  the  trial  proceeding, 
it  shall  be  conducted  according  to  the  principles  of  the 
Common  Law,  as  the  same  arc  generally  administered  in 
the  Confederate  States ;  nor  shall  any  testimony  be  received 
at  the  trial,  except  from  witnesses  who  have  signed  a  decla- 
ration in  the  following  words,  to  be  read  aloud  before  the 
witness  testifies,  and  to  be  filed  with  the  records  of  the 
Court : 

"  I,  A.  B.,  a  witness  summoned  to  testify  on  the  trial  of  a  presentment 

against  the   Right  Rev. ,    a  Bishop  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal 

Church  in  the  Confederate  States,  now  pending,  do  most  solemnly  call 
(tod  to  witness  that  the  evidence  I  am  about  to  give  shall  he  the  {ruth, 
the  whole  truth,  and  nothing  but  the  truth  ;  so  help  me  God  !" 

And  if  it  be  necessary  to  take  the  testimony  of  an  absent 
witness  on  a  commission,  such  testimony  shall  be  preceded 
by  a  similar  written  declaration  of  the  witness,  which  shall 
be  tiled  and  transmitted  with  his  or  her  deposition  to  the 


Provisos. 


Non-appearance. 


Contnmac)'. 


Three   laont! 
graft. 


Common  Lav. 
the  rule  of  pro- 
ceeding. 


Declaration   of 
witness. 


Deposition. 


TITLE  in.— OF  DISCIPLINE.  -        49 

Court.     The  testimony  of  eacli  witness  shall  be  reduced  to    canon  vm. 
writing.     And  in  case  there  is  ground  to  suppose  that  the     v — v — ' 
attendance  of  any  witness  on  tlfb  trial  cannot  be  obtained, 
it  shall  be  lawful  for  cither  party  to  apply  to  the  Court  if  m 
session,  or  if  not,  to  any  member  thereof,  who  shall  there- 
upon appoint  a  commissary  to  take  the  deposition  of  such    commjaary. 
witness  ;  and  such  party  so  desiring  to  take  the  deposition, 
shall  give  to  the  other  party  reasonable  notice  of  the  time 
and  place  of  taking  such  deposition,   accompanying  such 
notice  with  the  interrogatories  to  be  propounded  to  the 
witness ;  whereupon  it  shall  be  lawful  for  the  other  party, 
within  six  days  after  such  notice,  to  propound  cross-inter-    v^vnaBa*. 
rogatories  ;  and  such  interrogatories  and  cross-interrogato- 
ries, if  any  be  propounded,  shall  be  sent  to  the  commissary, 
who  shall  thereupon  proceed  to  take  the  testimony  of  such 
witness,  upon   oath  or  affirmation,  and  transmit  it  under 
seal  to  the  Court;     But  no  deposition  shall  be  road  at  the  tl0°nd™*- 
trial,  unless  the  Court  have  reasonable  assurance  that  the  bttread- 
attendance  of  the  witness   cannot  be  procured,  or  unle 
both  parties  shall  consent  that  it  may  be  read.     Provided,       rrovi*>. 
That  in  any  Diocese  in  which  the  civil  government  has 
.authorized  the  Ecclesiastical  Courts  therein  to  issue  sum- 
mons for  witnesses,  or  to  administer  an   oath,  the   Courl 
I  act  in  conformity  to  such  laws. 

[5.]  All  notices  ana  paper  i  may  be  serve  \  I  y  a  summoner  sv^°)^e^>ticc8 
or  summouers,  to  be  appointed  by  the  Court  when  the  same 
is  in  session,  or  by  a  member  thereof;  and  the  certificate  of 
any  8U<  1  .-ummoucr  shall  be  evidence  of  the  due  service  Of 
a  notice  or  paper.  In  ease  of  service  by  any  other  person, 
the  fact  may  be  proved  by  the  affidavit  of  such  person. 
The  delivery  of  a  written  notice  or  paper  to  the  accused  .^Vc1.1"'"3  of 
party,  or  to  the  Church  Advocate,  or  leaving  it,  or  a  copy 
thereof,  at  the  residence,  or  last  known  residence,  of  cither. 
shall  be  deemed  sufficient  service  of  such  notice  or  paper, 
on  the  Church* Advocate  and  accused  respectively,  If  the 
person  to  be  served  with  any  notice  or  paper  shall  have  left 
the  Confederate  States,  it  shall  be  a  sufficient  service  thereof 
to  leave  a  copy  of  such  notice,  or  paper  at  his  last  place  of 
abode  within  the  Confederate  3,  sixty  days  before  the 

day  on  which  the  appearance,  or  other'  act  required  by  the 
said  notice  or  paper,  is  to  be  performed. 

[G.]  The  accused  party  may,  if  he  think  proper,  have  the  uv,^^Luiiy 
aid  of  c  :  and  if  he  should  choose  to  have  more  than 

one   counsel,   the    Church   Advocate   may   have    assistant 
•  5 


50 


TITLE  III.— OF  DISCIPLINE. 


Opinion  of  Court. 


canon  viii.    advocates,  to  be  named  by  the  accusers  ;  but  in  every  case 

^"^     '     the  Court  may  regulate  the  number  of  counsel  who  shall 

address  the    Court   or   examine   witnesses.     The    Church 

Advocate  shall  be  considered  the  party  on  one  side,  and  the 

conSSnTceant0s.be  accused  on  the  other.     All  counsel  must  be  Communicants 

of  the  Church. 

[7.]  The  Court,  having  fully  heard  the  allegations  and 
proofs  of  the  parties,  and  deliberately  considered  the  same, 
after  the  parties  have  withdrawn,  shall  declare  respectively, 
whether,  in  their  opinion,  the  accused  is  guilty  or  not 
guilty  of  each  particular  charge  and  specifications  con- 
tained in  the 'presentment,  in  the  order  in  which  they  are 
set  forth ;  and  the  accused  shall  be  considered  as  not  guilty 
of  every  charge  and  specification  of  which  he  shall  not  be 
pronounced  guilty  by  a  majority  of  the  members  of  the 
Court. 

[8.]  The  decision  of  the  Court  as  to  all  the  charges  and 
specifications  of  which  a  majority  of  the  members  of  the 
Court  have  found  him  guilty,  shall  be  reduced  to  writing, 
and  signed  by  those  who  assent  to  it ;  and  a  decision  pro- 
nouncing him  not  guilty  of  all  those  charges  and  specifi- 
cations of  which  a  majority  shall  not  have  pronounced  him* 
guilty,  shall  also  be  drawn  up,  and  signed  by  those  who 
assent  to  it ;  and  the  decision  thus  signed  shall  be  regarded 
as  the  judgment  of  the  Court,  and  shall  be  pronounced  in 
the  presence  of  the  parties,  if  they  shall  think  proper  to 
attend. 

[9.]  If  the  accused  shall  be  found  guilty  of  any  charge 
or  specification,  the  Court  shall  proceed  to  ask  him  whether 
he  has  anything  to  say  before  the  -sentence  is  passed,  and 
may,  in  their  discretion,  give  him  time  to  prepare  what  he 
wishes  to  say,  and  appoint  a  time  for  passing  the  sentence ; 
and  before  passing  sentence,  the  Court  may  adjourn  from 
time  to  time,  and  give  the  accused  reasonable  opportunity 
of  showing  cause  to  induce  a  belief  that  justice  has  not 
been  done,  or  that  he  has  discovered  new  testimony  ;  and 
the  Court,  or  a  majority  of  its  members,  may,  according 
to  a  sound  discretion,  grant  him  a  new  trial.  Before 
passing  sentence,  the  accused  shall  always  have  the  oppor- 
tunity of  being  heard,  if  he  have  aught  to  say  in  excuse  or 
palliation. 

[10.]  The  accused  having  been  heard,  or  not  desiring  to 
be  heard,  the  sentence  of  the  Court  shall  then  be  pro- 
nounced,  and  shall  be  either  admonition,  suspension  as 


Accused  to  be 
heard. 


TITLE  III.— OF  DISCIPLINE.  51 

defined  by  the  existing  Canons  of  this  Church,  or  degra-  cmonvni. 
dation,  as  the  offence  or  offences  adjudged  to  be  proved  "—"v  ' 
shall  seem  to  deserve.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Court, 
whenever  sentence  has  been  pronounced,  whether  it  be 
upon  a  trial,  or  for  contumacy,  to  communicate  such  sen- 
tence to  the  Ecclesiastical  Authority  of  every  Diocese  of 
this  Church ;  and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  such  Authority  to    sentence  to  i* 

,  ill  /->n  communicated. 

cause  such  sentence  to  be  made  known  to  every  Clergyman 
under  his  jurisdiction. 

[11.]  Every  Court  shall  keep  a  full  record  of  its  proceed-  Record, 
ings,  including  the  whole  evidence  given  before  it.  Should 
any  Court  refuse  to  insert  in  its*  record  a  statement  of  any 
testimony  which  has  been  received,  or  of  any  decision  which 
the  Court  has  made,  or  of  any  fact  which  has  occurred  in 
Court,  or  any  paper  which  either  party  has  produced,  it 
shall  be  the  right  of  either  party  to  file  an  exception  in  Exceptions. 
writing,  containing  a  statement  of  such  evidence,  decision 
or  fact,  or  referring  to  or  describing  such  paper,  which 
paper  shall  also  be  filed  with  the  exception.  All  exceptions 
and  papers  so  filed  shall  become  parts  of  the  record. 

[12.]  Such  records  shall  be  kept  by  the  Clerk,  and  in-  at^kei,t  and 
serted  in  a  book,  to  be  attested  by  the  signatures  of  the 
President  and  Clerk.  Every  such  book,  and  all  papers 
connected  with  any  trial,  shall  be  deposited  with  the  Regis- 
trar of  the  General  Council.  Such  books  and  papers  shall 
be  open  to  the  inspection  of  every  member  of  this  Church. 

[13.]  Every  Court,  constituted  under  the  authority  of  Lay  adrfwra, 
this  Canon,  may  be  attended  by  one  or  more  Lay  advisers, 
who  shall  be  Communicants  of  this  Church,  and  of  the 
profession  of  the  law.  Such  advisers  may  be  present  at  all 
the  proceedings  of  the  Court,  but  they  shall  have  no  vote 
in  any  case  whatever ;  it  shall  be  their  duty  to  give  in  per- 
son to  the  Court  an  opinion  on  any  question  not  theological, 
upon  which  the  Court,  or  any  member  thereof,  or  either 
party,  shall  desire  an  opinion.  If  a  dispute  shall  arise 
whether  any  question  be  or  be  not  theological,  it  shall  be 
decided  by  the  Court  by  a  majority  of  votes.  The  Court 
may  always,  by  unanimous  consent,  appoint  an  adviser 
or  advisers.  If  they  are  not  unanimous,  each  member 
of  the  Court  may  name  a  candidate  ;  if  not  more  than 
three  are  named,  they  all  shall  be  advisers ;  if  more 
than  three  are  named,  the  Court  shall  reduce  them  to 
three  by  lot. 

§  7.  [1.]  Any  Bishop  of  this  Church  may  be  presented  e^l^f^ 

trine. 


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TITLE  III.— OF  DISCIPLINE. 


Canon  VIII. 


To  whom 
dressed. 


Quorjm. 


Xuiaber  to  con- 
vict. 

Oharzes  Against 
Missiou'ry  Bishop 


Bishop  without 
Jurisdiction, 


Mode  of  trying. 


for  holding  and  teaching  doctrine  inconsistent  with  that  of 
this  Church,  by  an}'  Bishop  in  communion  with  this  Church, 
and  not  under  suspension  or  degradation.  2^"o  Bishop  shall 
be  presented  in  any  other  mode  for  this  offence  ;  and  it 
shall  not  be  lawful  for  two  or  more  persons  to  unite  in  any 
such  presentment.  The  Bishop  making  such  presentment 
shall  appoint  a  Church  Advocate. 

[2.]  Every  presentment  for  alleged  erroneous  doctrine 
shall  be  signed  by  the  person  making  it,  and  shall  be 
addressed  to  the  Bishops  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal 
Church  in  the  Confederate  States,  and  delivered  to  the 
senior  Bishop  entitled  to  a  seat  in  the  House  of  Bishops, 
and  not  being  the  accused  or  the  accuser,  whose  duty  it  shall 
be  to  convene  a  Court  for  the  trial  of  the  accused.  The 
Court  shall  be  composed  of  all  the  Bishops  entitled  to  seats 
in  the  House  of  Bishops,  except  the  accuser  and  the 
accused.  Three-fourths  of  such  Bishops  shalbconstitute  a 
quorum  ;  but  the  consent  of  two-thirds  of  all  the  Bishops 
entitled  to  seats  in  the  House  of  Bishops  shall  be  necessary 
to  a  conviction. 

§  8.  [1.]  If  charges  be  preferred  against  a  Missionary 
Bishop,  who  is  not  a  Diocesan,  such  Missionary  Bishop 
shall  be  required  by  the  Presiding  or  senior  Bishop  to  name 
some  one  of  the  three  Dioceses  nearest  to  his  District  or 
Missionary  field ;  and  such  selection  having  been  made, 
the  proceedings  shall  then  be  precisely  such  as,  under  this 
Canon,  they  would  be  were  he  the  Diocesan  of  the  Diocese 
named  by  him.  Should  the  Missionary  Bishop  refuse  to 
name  a  Diocese,  then  the  Presiding  Bishop  may  name  any 
one  of  the  three  above  designated,  and  the  eftcct  shall  be 
the  same  as  if  the  nomination  had  been  made  by  the  accused 
Missionary  Bishop. 

[2.]  If  charges  be  preferred  against  a  Bishop  having  no 
jurisdiction,  he  shall  be  proceeded  against  precisely  as  if  he 
were  the  Diocesan  of  the  Diocese  in  which  he  has  his  civil 
residence. 

T3.]  Any  Foreign  Missionary  Bishop  shall,  on  present- 
ment by  two-thirds  of  the  Missionaries  under  his  charge, 
for  immorality  or  heresy,  or  for  a  violation  of  the  Consti- 
tution or  Canons  of  this  Church,  be  tried,  and,  if  found 
guilty,  sentenced,  in  all  particulars  .as  if  he  were  actually 
resident  within  the  limits  of  the  Confederate  States,  except 
that  the  trial  may  be  within  any  Diocese  in  the  Confederate 
States. 


TITLE  III.— OF  DISCIPLINE.  53 

Canon  IX. 

CANON  IX.  wv-^ 

OF  SENTENCES. 

§  1.     Whenever    the    penalty   of    suspension    shall    be     suspension, 
inflicted  on  a  Bishop,  Priest  or  Deacon  in  this  Church,  the 
sentence  shall  specify  on  what  terms,  or  at  what  time,  said 
penalty  shall  cease. 

,  §  2.  [1.]  When  any  Minister  is  degraded  from  the  Holy    Degradation. 
Ministry,  he  is  degraded  therefrom  entirely,  and  not  from 
a  higher  to  a  lower  Order  of  the  same.     No  degraded  or   no  restoration, 
deposed  Minister  shall  be  restored  to  the  Ministry. 

[2.]  Whenever  a  Clergyman  shall  be  degraded  or  deposed,  (i.;;^e  of  aep* 
the  Bishop  who  pronounces  sentence  shall,  without  delay, 
give  notice  thereof  to  the  Ecclesiastical  Authority  of  every 
Diocese,  and  to  each  Minister,  (or  to  the  Vestry,  if  there  be 
no  Minister,)  of  the  Diocese  to  which  the  degraded  or 
deposed  Minister  belongs,  in  which  notice  it  shall  be  stated 
whether  or  no  the  degradation  or  deposition  be  for  causes 
affecting  his  moral  character;  and  each  Minister  in  said  Dio- 
cese shall  give  notice  thereof  to  his  congregation  on  the 
first  occasion  of  public  worship  next  occurring. 


CANON  X. 

OF  THE  REMISSION  OR  MODIFICATION  OF  JUDICIAL 
SENTENCES  ON  BISHOPS. 

The  Bishops  of  this  Church,  who  are  entitled  to  seats  in 
the  House  of  Bishops,  may  altogether  remit  and  terminate 
any  judicial  sentence  imp'osed  by  Bishops  acting  collectively 
as  a  judicial  tribunal ;  or  modify  the  same  so  far  as  to 
designate  a  precise  period  of  time,  or  other  specific  contin- 
gency, on  the  occurrence  of  which,  such  sentence  Bhall 
utterly  cease,  and  be  of  no  further  force  or  effect:  Provided, 
That  no  such  remission  or  modification  shall  be  made  except 
at  a  meeting  of  the  House  of  Bishops,  during  the  session 
of  some  General  Council,  or  at  a  special  meeting  of  the  said  AcVoTaspeSi 
Bishops,  which  shall  be  convened  by  the  Presiding  Bishop 
on  the  application  of  any  five  Bishops;  three  months'  notice 
in  writing,  of  the  time,  p4ace  and  object  of  the  meeting  being 
given  to  each  Bishop,  or  sent  to  his  usual  place  of  abode: 


meeting. 


54  TITLE  III.— OF  DISCIPLINE. 


Majority  assenting 


Provided,  also,  That  such  remission  or  modification  be 
assented  to  by  a  number  of  said  Bishops  not  less  than  a 
majority  of  the  whole  number  entitled  at  the  time  to  seats 
in  the  House  of  Bishops ;  and  provided,  That  nothing  herein 
shall  be  construed  to  alter  the  effect  of  Canon  IX.  of  this 
Title. 


CAXOX  XI. 

REGULATION'S  RESPECTING  THE  LAITY. 

Kemoyai  of  com-  §  1.  A  Communicant  removing  from  one  Parish  to 
another,  shall  procure  from  the  Rector  of  the  Parish  of  his 
last  residence,  or,  if  there  be  no  Rector,  from  one  of  the 
Wardens,  a  certificate  stating  that  he  or  she  is  a  Commu- 
nicant in  good  standing ;  and  the  Rector  of  the  Parish  or 
Congregation  to  which  he  or  she  removes  shall  not  be 
required  to  receive  him  or  her  as  a  Communicant  until  such 
letter  be  produced. 
Bishop  to  be  in.      §2.  As  one  of  the  rubrics  of  this  Church  requires  that 

formed.  ■»*■••  ,,.  n  ,-.  .  i  H      ■ 

every  Minister  repelling  from  the  Communion  shall  give  an 
account  of  the  same  to  the  Ordinary,  it  is  hereby  provided, 
that,  information  of  the  same  being  laid  before  the  Ordi- 
nary, that  is  the  Bishop,  it  shall  not  be  his  duty  to  institute 
an  inquiry,  unless  there  be  a  complaint  made  to  him  in  wri- 
ting by  the  repelled  party.  But  on  receiving  complaint, 
piafm,.Urycmcom"  the  bishop  shall  institute  an  inquiry,  as  may  be  directed  by 
the  Canons  of  the  Diocese  in  which  the  event  has  taken 
place;  and  the  uotice,. given  as  above  by  the  Minister,  shall 
be  a  sufficient  presentation  of  the  party  repelled. 

§  3.  Persons  desiring  to  act  habitually  as  Lay  Readers 
may  do  so  with  the  consent  of  the  Ecclesiastical  Authority 
of  the  Diocese  in  which  they  arc  thus  to  read. 


Lay  Reader 


TITLE  IV. 

OF  THE  ORGANIZED  BODIES  AND  OFFICERS 
OF  THE  CHURCH. 


CATON  I. 

OF  THE  GENERAL  COUNCIL. 

• 

§  1.  [1.]  The  right  of  calling  special  meetings  of  the  specw  meeting*. 
General  Council  shall  be  in  the  Bishops.  This  right  shall 
be  exercised  by  the  Presiding  Bishop,  or,  in  case  of  his 
death,  by  the  Bishop  who,  according  to  the  rules  of  the 
House  of  Bishops,  is  to  preside  at  the  next  General  Council : 
Provided,  That  the  summons  shall  be  with  the  consent,  or 
on  the  requisition  of  a  majority  of  the  Bishops,  expressed 
to  him  in  writing. 

[2.]  The  place  of  holding  any  Special  Council  shall  be       riace. 
that   selected   by  the  preceding  General  Council  for  the 
meeting  of  the  next  General  Council,  unless  circumstances 
shall  render  a  meeting  at  such  a  place  unsafe ;  in  which  case, 
the  Presiding  Bishop  may  appoint-some  other  place. 

[3.]  The  Deputies  elected  to  the  preceding  General  Coun-  sameDepuHea. 
cil  shall  be  the  Deputies  at  such  Special  Council,  unless  in 
those  cases  in  which  other  Deputies  shall  have  been  chosen 
in  the  meantime  by  any  of  the  Diocesan  Councils,  and  then 
such  other  Deputies  shall  represent  in  the  Special  Council 
the  Church  of  the  Diocese  in  which  they  have  been  chosen. 

§  2.  [1.]  The  journals,  files,  papers,  reports  and  other  Kegistrar. 
documents,  which,  under  Canon  Y.  of  Title  II.,  entitled  Of 
Securing  an  Accurate  View  of  the  State  of  the  Church,  or  in  any 
other  manner,  shall  become  the  property  of  either  House 
of  the  General  Council  of  this  Church,  shall  be  committed 
to  the  keeping  of  a  Presbyter  to  be  elected  by  the  House' 
of  Deputies,  upon  nomination  of  the  House  of  Bishops,  who 
shall  be  known  as  the  Registrar  of  the  General  Council. 

[2.]  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  said  Registrar  to  procure     madaMe* 
all  such  journals,  files,  papers,  reports  and  other  documents 


56  TITLE  IV*.— OF  THE  ORGANIZED  BODIES  AND  OFFICERS. 

canon i.  dow  in  existence  ;  to  arrange,  label,  file,  index  and  other- 
v — y — ^  wise  put  in  order,  and  provide  for  the  safe  keeping  of  the 
same,  and  all  such  others  as  may  hereafter  come  into  his 
possession,  in  fire-proof  box  or  boxes,  in  some  safe  and 
accessible  place  of  deposit,  and  to  hold  the  same  under  such 
regulations  and  restrictions  as  the  General  Council  may 
from  time  to  time  provide. 
Kecordof  con-  [3.1  It  Email  be  the  duty  of  the  said  Registrar  to  procure 
a  proper  book  of  record,  and  to  enter  therein  a  record  of 
the  consecrations  of  all  the  Bishops  of  this  Church,  desig- 
nating accurately  the  time  and  place  of  the  same,  with  the 
names  of  the  consecrating  Bishops,  and  of  others  present 
and  assisting  ;  to  have  the  same  authenticated  in  the  fullest 
manner  practicable  ;  and  to  take  care  for  the  similar  record 
and  authentication  of  all  future  consecrations  in  this  Church. 
.  Expenses.  [4.]  The  expenses  necessary  for  the  purposes  contemplated 

by  this  section  shall  bo  provided  for  by  vote  of  the  General 
Council,  and  defrayed  by  the  Treasurer  of  the  same. 

Nccmn  cii?loccsan  §  3.  The  Secretary  of  the  House  of  Deputies,  whenever 
any  alteration  of  the  Constitution  is  proposed,  or  any  other 
subject  submitted  to  the  consideration  of  the  several 
Diocesan  Councils,  shall  give  a  particular  notice  thereof 
to  the  Ecclesiastical.  Authority  of  this  Church  in  every 
Diocese. 

§  4.  At  every  triennial  meeting  of  the  General  Council, 
a  Treasurer  shall  be  chosen  by  the  House  of  Deputies  and 
confirmed  by  the  House  of  Bishops,  who  shall  remain  in 
office  until  the  next  stated  Council,  and  until  a  successor  be 
appointed.  It  shall  be  his  duty  to  receive  and  disburse  all 
moneys  collected  under  the  authority  of  the  Council,  and 
of  which  the  collection  and  disbursement  shall  not  other- 
wise be  regulated;  and  to  invest,  from  time  to  time,  for  the 
benefit  of  the  Council,  such  surplus  funds  as  he  may  have 
on  hand.  His  account  shall  be  rendered  triennially  to  the 
Council,  and  shall  be  examined  by  a  Committee  acting 

vacancy;  how  (o  nnder  its  authority.  In  case  of  a  vacancy  in  the  office  of 
Treasurer,  it  shall  be  supplied  by  an  appointment  to  be  made 
by  the  Ecclesiastical  Authority  of  the  Diocese  to  which  he 
belonged;  and  the  person  so  appointed  shall  continue  to  act 
until  an  appointment  be  made  by  the  Council. 

Euui  council in" '  §  5.  In  order  that  the  contingent  expenses  of  the  General 
Council  may  be  defrayed,  the  Several  Diocesan  Councils 
shall  forward  to  the  Treasurer  of  the  General  Council,  at 
or  before  any  meeting  thereof,  live  dollars  for  each  Clergy- 
man within  such  Diocese. 


Treasurer,   hi 

duties. 


TITLE  IV.  -OETIIE  ORGANIZED  nODIE?    VXD  OFFICER? 


CAXoX   II. 

OF  STANDING  COMMITTEES. 

S  1.  In  every  Diocese  there  shall  be  a  Standing  Commit- 
tee, to  be  appointed  by  the  Council  thereof,  whose  duties, 
except  so  far  as  provided  for  by  the  Canons  of  the  General 
Council,  maybe  prescribed  by  the  Canons  of  the  respective 
Dioceses.  They  shall  elect  from  their  o<vn  body  a  Presi- 
dent and  a  Secretary.  They  may  meet  on  their  own 
adjournment  from  time  to  time;  and  trie  Prcsidenl  shall 
have  power  to  summon  special  meetings  whenever  lie  shall 
deem  it  necessary. 

§2.  In  every  Diocese  where  there  is  a  Bishop,  the  Stand- 
ing Committee  shall  be  a  Council  of  Advice  to  the  Bishop. 
They  shall  be  summoned  on  the  requisition  of  the  Bishop, 
whenever  lie  shall  wish  for  their  advice.  And  they  may 
meet  of  their  own  accord,  and  agreeably  to  their  own  rules, 
when  they  may  be  disposed  to  advise  trie  Bishop. 


('AXON   Lib 


OF  CONGREGATIONS  AND  PARISHES: 


No  congregation  within  one  Diocese  shall  unite  itself  with     No  ...u:,11  wiUl 
any  other  Diocese,  and  every  congregation  of  this  Church  i>T^. 
shall  belong  to  the  Diocese  within   which   their   Church 
building?  is  located. 


TITLE:  V. 
VIISCELLANpOtlS   PKOVISIONS. 


I      ■        ■         !..         . 
<>:    !•..-•;;  y  ED   CANONS 

viuqpwi  ?Whe]  jverthere  shall  be  a  repealing  clause  in  any  Canon, 

and  the  said  Canon  shall  be  repealed,  such  repeal  shall  not 
be  a  re-enactment  of  the  Canon  or  Canons  repealed  by  the 
••nid  repealing  clause 


U-A"N*ON    [I: 

OF-TIIE  RE1       lJ  '  L51>  EXA<  1  KENT  <>!•' 

CANONS. 

Vom  ot  Ln  all  cases  of  future  enactment,  the  same,  if  by  way  of 

amendment  of  an  existing  provision,  shall  be  in  the  follow, 

ing  form  :  "Canon (or  Section of  Canon ,  or 

Clause of  Section of  Canon )  of  Title , 

is  hereby  amended  so  as  to  read  as  follows:"  And  if  the 
enactment  is  of  an  additional  Clause,  Section  or  Canon,  it 
shall  be  designated  as  the  next  Canon,  or  next  Section,  or 
next  Clause,  of  a  Canon,  or  Section,  in  the  order  of  num- 
bering, of  the  Title  to  which  the  subject  properly  belongs  ; 
and  if  a  Canon  or  Section  or  Clause  be  stricken  out,  the 
existing  numbering  shall  bo  retained,  until  a  new  edition 
of  the  Canons  be  directc  ] 


'REPEAL,  AMENDMENT  AND  ENACTMENT?  01  CANONS 


,.' 


The  Committee  on  Canons  of  each  House  of  the  Geueral  moa  u. 

Council  shall,  at  the  close  of  each  Session,  appoint  two  of  v — \ — ' 

their  number  to  certify  tho  changes,  if  any,  made  in  tl<  {whom 
Canons,  and  to  report  the  same,  with  the  proper  arrange- 
ment thereof,  to  the  Secretary,  who  shall  print  the  samo 
in  the  Joura 


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